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Nature Immunology  4, 97 - 99 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ni0203-97

Thymic output: a bad TREC record

Mette D. Hazenberg1, José A.M. Borghans1, Rob J. de Boer2 & Frank Miedema1, 3

1  Department of Clinical Viro-Immunology, Sanquin Research at CLB and Landsteiner Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2  Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

3  Department of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Correspondence should be addressed to Frank Miedema fmiedema@sanquin.nl
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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