embryo
• proliferation in the GCM2-negative thymus-fated domain of the 3rd pharyngeal pouch is reduced at E11.5
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• marker analysis at E15.5 indicates an early block in thymic epithelial cell differentiation, with impaired differentiation of both cortical thymic epithelial cell and medullary thymic epithelial cell lineages and an accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
• thymocytes show a partial block at the DN3 to DN4 transition at E15.5 indicating a partial differentiation arrest at the DN3 stage
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• accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
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• fetal thymi are severely hypoplastic throughout development and remain so in the postnatal period
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• total thymocyte cellularity is decreased by about 5-fold in E15.5 thymi
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hematopoietic system
• marker analysis at E15.5 indicates an early block in thymic epithelial cell differentiation, with impaired differentiation of both cortical thymic epithelial cell and medullary thymic epithelial cell lineages and an accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
• thymocytes show a partial block at the DN3 to DN4 transition at E15.5 indicating a partial differentiation arrest at the DN3 stage
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• accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
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• fetal thymi are severely hypoplastic throughout development and remain so in the postnatal period
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• total thymocyte cellularity is decreased by about 5-fold in E15.5 thymi
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immune system
• marker analysis at E15.5 indicates an early block in thymic epithelial cell differentiation, with impaired differentiation of both cortical thymic epithelial cell and medullary thymic epithelial cell lineages and an accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
• thymocytes show a partial block at the DN3 to DN4 transition at E15.5 indicating a partial differentiation arrest at the DN3 stage
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• accumulation of early thymic epithelial cell progenitors
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• fetal thymi are severely hypoplastic throughout development and remain so in the postnatal period
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• total thymocyte cellularity is decreased by about 5-fold in E15.5 thymi
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