Thymus Transcriptome and Cell Biology

Book Overview

1. History of the thymus: From a vestigial organ to the programming of immunological self-tolerance.- 2. Thymus Ontogeny and Development.- 3. The Ins and Outs of Thymic Epithelial Cell Differentiation and Function.- 4. T-Cell Development: From T-Lineage Specification to Intrathymic Maturation.- 5. Intrathymic cell migration: implications in thymocyte development and T-cell repertoire formation.- 6. Thymic crosstalk: an overview of the complex cellular interactions that control the establishment of T-cell tolerance.- 7. The Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) gene, the master activator of self-antigen expression in the thymus.- 8. Aire Mutations and Autoimmune Diseases.- 9. The thymus as a mirror of the body's gene expression.- 10. Functional genomics of the infant human thymus: Aire and minipuberty.- 11. Thymus transcriptome of TGF-β superfamily.- 12. Development of thymic regulatory T lymphocytes.- 13. Adding insult to injury: improving the regenerative capacity of the aged thymus following clinically induced damage.- 14. Thymus rejuvenation after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with autoimmune diseases.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030120422
• ISBN13: 9783030120429
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"