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Thymic epithelial cell (TEC, pan)

Epithelial scaffold of the thymus (FOXN1-dependent), comprising cortical, medullary and rarer mimetic or specialised subsets.

Synonymes : thymic epithelium, epithelial cell of thymus

Tissus : thymus

Cell Ontology : epithelial cell of thymus · CL:0002293 (correspondance exacte) — An epithelial cell of the thymus. Epithelial reticular cells are pleomorphic, stellate, non-phagocytic cells which seem to be supportive in function and are held together by desmosomes. They replace the fibroblastoid reticular cells found in other lymphoid organs. Other epithelial cells in the medulla have the ultrastructure of secretory cells. Although different epithelial cells throughout the th

Marqueurs (6)

Sous-types

• Immature TEC (human, progenitor-like)
• Bipotent TEC progenitor (mouse)
• Cortical thymic epithelial cell (cTEC)
• Medullary thymic epithelial cell (mTEC, pan)
• Myelin-expressing (Schwann-like) epithelial cell, human thymus
• Structural TEC (sTEC, mouse)

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