| Literature DB >> 15361659 |
Tomoo Ueno1, Cunlan Liu, Takeshi Nitta, Yousuke Takahama.
Abstract
Fetal thymus organ culture (FTOC) is a unique and powerful culture system that allows intrathymic T-lymphocyte development in vitro. T-cell development in FTOC well represents fetal thymocyte development in vivo. Here, we describe the basic method for FTOC as well as several related techniques, including the reconstitution of thymus lobes with T-lymphoid progenitor cells, high-oxygen submersion culture, time-lapse visualization of thymic emigration, reaggregation culture, and retrovirus-mediated gene transfer to developing thymocytes in FTOC.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15361659 DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-838-2:117
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745