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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2017

Generation of diversity in thymic epithelial cells.

Yousuke Takahama, Izumi Ohigashi, Song Baik, Graham Anderson

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers.

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123citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Decoding Spatial Heterogeneity and Multi-Omics Regulation with Hierarchical Graph Learning.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. Thymic regeneration and tumor immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  17. Thymus Ontogeny and Development.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  18. Topoisomerase 1 is required for the development and function of thymus.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2025
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63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yousuke TakahamaDivision of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
Izumi OhigashiDivision of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
Song BaikInstitute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Graham AndersonInstitute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 20753Medical Research Council MR/N000919/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the thymus, diverse populations of thymic epithelial cells (TECs), including cortical and medullary TECs and their subpopulations, have distinct roles in coordinating the development and repertoire selection of functionally competent and self-tolerant T cells. Here, we review the expanding diversity in TEC subpopulations in relation to their functions in T cell development and selection as well as their origins and development.

Indexed as

AnimalsChemokinesEpithelial CellsThymocytesThymus GlandT-LymphocytesChemokines

Identifiers

PMID28317923

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