Thymic output: a bad TREC record

MD Hazenberg, JAM Borghans, RJ de Boer… - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
MD Hazenberg, JAM Borghans, RJ de Boer, F Miedema
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TREC assays are used to detect recent thymic emigrants and quantitate thymic output. However, the longevity of naive T cells combined with T cell division suggest TREC data should be interpreted with caution.
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