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THE properties and activities of mammalian cell membranes have become an area of increasing interest in cell biology, and their study has involved a variety of experimental approaches. The mutual interaction of membranes from identical or different cell types has often been studied. For example, it has been found that a large proportion of human peripheral blood lymphocytes, when mixed with sheep red blood cells, form cell clusters known as rosettes, in which a central tymphocyte is partially or fully surrounded by red cells1–3. This also occurs with human thymocytes4, and is apparently a property of human lymphocytes derived from the thymus (T cells)5,6.
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ELLIOTT, E., KERBEL, R. & PHILLIPS, B. Rosette formation by a mouse fibroblast cell line. Nature 248, 514–515 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248514a0
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