Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Identification of distinct functional thymic programming of fetal and pediatric human γδ thymocytes via single-cell analysis

  • Guillem Sanchez Sanchez,
  • Maria Papadopoulou,
  • Abdulkader Azouz,
  • Yohannes Tafesse,
  • Archita Mishra,
  • Jerry K. Y. Chan,
  • Yiping Fan,
  • Isoline Verdebout,
  • Silvana Porco,
  • Frédérick Libert,
  • Florent Ginhoux,
  • Bart Vandekerckhove,
  • Stanislas Goriely,
  • David Vermijlen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33488-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Knowledge about the ontogeny of T cells in the thymus relies heavily on mouse studies because of difficulty to obtain human material. Here the authors perform a single cell analysis of thymocytes from human fetal and paediatric thymic samples to characterise the development of human γδ T cells in the thymus.