Intrathymic lymphopoiesis: stromal cell-associated proliferation of T cells is independent of lymphocyte genotype - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1984 Sep;133(3):1111-6.

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Intrathymic lymphopoiesis: stromal cell-associated proliferation of T cells is independent of lymphocyte genotype

B A Kyewski et al. J Immunol. 1984 Sep.

Abstract

We analyzed the genetic restriction of direct cell-cell interactions between thymocytes and a) cortical epithelial cells, b) macrophages, and c) medullary dendritic cells in the mouse thymus. Thymectomized (C3H X C57BL/Ka)F1 hybrid mice were doubly grafted with P1 and P2 neonatal thymus grafts, were lethally irradiated, and were reconstituted with a mixture of P1 and P2 bone marrow cells which differed in the Thy-1 locus. The contributions of both parental inocula to the composition of the free and stromal cell-associated T cell compartments were analyzed separately in thymic grafts of each parental strain. The lymphoid composition in both compartments essentially reflected the peripheral T cell-chimerism in the host. The development of lymphostromal complexes was not restricted by the genotype of the partner cells. Statistical analysis of the distributions of P1 and P2 T cells among free thymocytes and within individual lymphostromal complexes, however, suggests that the T cells of an individual complex are the progeny of oligoclonal proliferation. Thus, both epithelial cells and bone marrow-derived stromal cells seem to be involved in different stages of intrathymic lymphopoiesis.

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Intrathymic lymphopoiesis: stromal cell-associated proliferation of T cells is independent of lymphocyte genotype - PubMed (original) (raw)