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It is generally believed that T lymphocytes develop from immature hemopoietic cells in the thymus. The thymus contains various subpopulations of lymphocytes, but little is known about their precursor-product relationship. Some of these connections have recently been studied in organ culture as well as in short-term culture of dissociated thymocytes and will be summarized below. In addition initial data on the ontogeny of T-cell receptor expression will be discussed.
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Von Boehmer, H. (1986). Thymus Development. In: Fleischer, B., Reimann, J., Wagner, H. (eds) Specificity and Function of Clonally Developing T Cells. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71152-7_3
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