How to Use "thymus" with Example Sentences
- 1. The process of t-cell development in the thymus requires progenitor cells to rearrange pieces of dna .
- 2. Only a tiny percentage of t cells pass these tests and are allowed to leave the thymus and circulate in the body to defend against viruses , other diseases , and cancerous cells .
- 3. In order to determine the potential of etps , the team first had to separate etps from all the other cells in a mouse thymus .
- 4. Chakraborty and colleagues had previously developed computational models of t-cell development in the thymus , an organ located behind the breastbone through which t cells must pass in order to become mature killers .
- 5. Since etps showed the potential to give rise to myeloid cell types , the team also asked whether some of the myeloid cells in the thymus normally arise from etps .