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ReviewCurrent molecular medicine2015

Thymic Nurse Cells Participate in Heterotypic Internalization and Repertoire Selection of Immature Thymocytes; Their Removal from the Thymus of Autoimmune Animals May be Important to Disease Etiology.

J C Guyden, M Martinez, R V E Chilukuri, V Reid, F Kelly, M-O D Samms

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Review in Current molecular medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

J C Guyden
M Martinez
R V E Chilukuri
V Reid
F Kelly
M-O D SammsDepartment of Biology, The City College of New York, MR-526, New York, NY 10031, USA. mdsamms59@gmail.com.

Funding

TNC FUNCTION IN APOPTOTIC ANTIGEN DRIVEN AUTOIMMUNITYG12RR003060 · NCRR · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI WALLMAN, JOSHUA · 1985 to 2011
$26.1M
Cellular/Molecular Basis of Development: Research CenterG12MD007603 · NIMHD · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI PEZZANO, MARK · 2012 to 2017
$11.5M
NCRR NIH HHS G12 RR003060NIMHD NIH HHS 8G12MD007603-29NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thymic nurse cells (TNCs) are specialized epithelial cells that reside in the thymic cortex. The initial report of their discovery in 1980 showed TNCs to contain up to 200 thymocytes within specialized vacuoles in their cytoplasm. Much has been reported since that time to determine the function of this heterotypic internalization event that exists between TNCs and developing thymocytes. In this review, we discuss the literature reported that describes the internalization event and the role TNCs play during T cell development in the thymus as well as why these multicellular complexes may be important in inhibiting the development of autoimmune diseases.

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AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityCell CommunicationCell DifferentiationCell-in-Cell FormationEpithelial CellsHistocompatibility AntigensHumansPhenotypeThymocytesThymus GlandHistocompatibility Antigens

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PMID26511706
PMCPMC5303014

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