Advances in Immunology, Volume 69 (Advances in Immunology)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: June 15, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780120224692
First sentence: It was recognized in the early 1980s that a minor population (~5% of the total number) of adult thymocytes, characterized by lack of expression of CD4 and CD8 [hence the designation "double-negative" (DN) thymocytes], contained progenitors for all thymocyte subsets.