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Isolation of Myeloid Dendritic Cells and Epithelial Cells from Human Thymus
Published on: September 19, 2013
New data on the involvement of ectodermal epithelium in extrathymic differentiation of human T-lymphocytes
Z S Khlystova1, I I Kalinina, S P Shmeleva
1Laboratory of Embryonal Histogenesis, Institute of Human Morphology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|January 22, 2005
Abstract:
Thymalin accumulates only in young cells of the skin ectodermal epithelium and mucosa of the anterior portions of the digestive and respiratory systems. After appearance of keratin the cells no longer accumulate thymalin. Similarly as in the thymus, thymalin content in the ectodermal epithelium of the organs is subjected to age-associated involution.

