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Examination of Thymic Positive and Negative Selection by Flow Cytometry
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We present a flow cytometry-based method to examine T cell development in vivo using genetically manipulated mice on a wildtype or T cell receptor transgenic background.
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Hu, Q., Nicol, S. A., Suen, A. Y., Baldwin, T. A. Examination of Thymic Positive and Negative Selection by Flow Cytometry. J. Vis. Exp. (68), e4269, doi:10.3791/4269 (2012).
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