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- noun medicine The production of
thymocytes , which later becomeT cells
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Vascularized thymic lobe allografts support thymopoiesis.
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Heinzel K, Bleul CC (2007) The Foxn1-dependent transcripts PCOLCE2 and mPPP1R16B are not required for normal thymopoiesis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010
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Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Kuro OM, Hollander GA, Blazar BR, et al. (2007) Sustained thymopoiesis and improvement in functional immunity induced by exogenous KGF administration in murine models of aging.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Masako Osada et al. 2010
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As a growth factor and cytokine physiologically produced by marrow or thymic stromal cells and other epithelia, IL-7 has an important and, at some steps, a non-redundant stimulating effect on T lymphocyte development, notably on thymopoiesis and, down-stream from the thymus, on homeostatic expansion of peripheral T cells.
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In addition, we utilized the chimeric severe combined immunodeficient mouse/human (SCID-hu) system in which mice are transplanted with human fetal thymus and liver under the renal capsule, forming a conjoint human organ that phenotypically and functionally recapitulates human thymopoiesis within the mouse
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott G. Kitchen et al. 2009
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Withers-Ward ES, Amado RG, Koka PS, Jamieson BD, Kaplan AH, et al. (1997) Transient renewal of thymopoiesis in HIV-infected human thymic implants following antiviral therapy.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott G. Kitchen et al. 2009
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Kitchen SG, Killian S, Giorgi JV, Zack JA (2000) Functional reconstitution of thymopoiesis following HIV infection.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott G. Kitchen et al. 2009
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