immune system
• mutant thymocytes have an abnormal CD3 profile and are 97% TCRlo compared to wild-type, suggesting failure of recombination at the TCR alpha locus in double-positive cells
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• a 20-30% increase in CD44- CD25+ cells is observed in mutants
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• Rag1 and Rag2 expression in double-positive T cells is decreased almost to limit of detection
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• there are very few TCRhi single-positive thymocytes
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hematopoietic system
• mutant thymocytes have an abnormal CD3 profile and are 97% TCRlo compared to wild-type, suggesting failure of recombination at the TCR alpha locus in double-positive cells
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• a 20-30% increase in CD44- CD25+ cells is observed in mutants
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• Rag1 and Rag2 expression in double-positive T cells is decreased almost to limit of detection
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• there are very few TCRhi single-positive thymocytes
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