there is particular interest in thymocyte differentiation because the genotype of radioresistant thymus cells influences the specificity repertoire of the pool of t cells that mature therein : that is , the major histocompatibility complex ( mhc ) antigens expressed by thymus cells bias the pool of maturing t cells towards recognition of antigens in the 'context ' of the products of that mhc haplotype ( 'thymus education ' ;
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thymocyte
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cells