Identification and separation of pre T-cells from nu/nu mice: differentiation by preculture with thymic reticuloepithelial cells. |
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Authors: | V L Sato S D Waksal L A Herzenberg |
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Affiliation: | Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Spleens and lymph nodes of nu/nu, congenitally athymic, mice have 16–32% and 72–76%, respectively, of large, brain-associated-T (BAT) antigen positive cells. These BAT positive large cells were isolated from nu/nu spleens with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS-II) and then cultured on thymic reticuloepithelial cell (TRC) monolayers. Both concanavalin A and mixed lymphocyte reactivity was induced during this culture period. We concluded that these BAT positive cells are pre-T cells which can he induced to at least some T cell functions by an inductive factor produced by TRC. |
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