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ReviewSeminars in immunopathology2008

The long road to the thymus: the generation, mobilization, and circulation of T-cell progenitors in mouse and man.

Daniel A Zlotoff, Benjamin A Schwarz, Avinash Bhandoola

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Review in Seminars in immunopathology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development in Mammalian Embryos.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  4. Anti-PD-1 Induces M1 Polarization in the Glioma Microenvironment and Exerts Therapeutic Efficacy in the Absence of CD8 Cytotoxic T Cells.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2020
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  7. Coevolution of the coagulation and immune systems.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2019
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  13. FADD deficiency impairs early hematopoiesis in the bone marrow.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2011
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  15. Eliciting the T cell fate with Notch.Seminars in immunology · 2010
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  19. Settling the thymus: immigration requirements.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2009
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  20. Untangling the T branch of the hematopoiesis tree.Current opinion in immunology · 2009
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel A ZlotoffDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 264 John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Benjamin A Schwarz
Avinash Bhandoola

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of T cells develop in the thymus. T-cell progenitors in the thymus do not self-renew and so progenitor cells must be continuously imported from the blood into the thymus to maintain T-cell production. Recent work has shed light on both the identity of the cells that home to the thymus and the molecular mechanisms involved. This review will discuss the cells in the bone marrow and blood that are involved in early thymopoiesis in mouse and man. Understanding the pre-thymic steps in T-cell development may translate into new therapeutics, especially in the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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AnimalsBone Marrow CellsCell DifferentiationHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansMiceThymus GlandT-Lymphocytes

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