Thymic Nurse Cells Help Decide Fate Of Baby T-Cells (Scienc


Thymic nurse cells are specialized cells of the thymus capable of taking up as many as 50 developing T cells into their cytoplasm. Scientists now show that thymic nurse cells play a role in deciding which thymocytes that have been taken up will die, because they will become potentially harmful if they mature, and which will be released to continue the developmental process.

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