Sparse production but preferential incorporation of recently produced naïve T cells in the human peripheral pool

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6115-6120

  Vrisekoop, Nienke ^a,b   Den Braber, Ineke ^a,b   De Boer, Anne Bregje ^a,b   Ruiter, An F C ^b   Ackermans, Mariëtte T ^b   Van Der Crabben, Saskia N ^b   Schrijver, Elise H R ^a   Spierenburg, Gerrit ^a   Sauerwein, Hans P ^b   Hazenberg, Mette D ^a,b   De Boer, Rob J ^c   Miedema, Frank ^a,b   Borghans, José A M ^a,b,c   Tesselaar, Kiki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Recent thymic emigrants; T cell half lives; T cell production

Indexed keywords

CD27 ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; DEUTERIUM OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LABELING; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WATER; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; GRANULOCYTE; HALF LIFE TIME; IMMUNOLOGY;

MUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL MOVEMENT; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; GRANULOCYTES; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 43149105163     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709713105     Document Type: Article

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