Human thymus regeneration and T cell reconstitution
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Human thymus regeneration and T cell reconstitution
Abstract
The thymus supports the development of T cells throughout life from hematopoietic progenitor cells migrating from the bone marrow. During the early years after birth thymic activity is highest, but progressively declines resulting in diminished naïve T cell output. Underlying causes of thymic involution may be degeneration of the stromal thymic network, providing survival and differentiation factors for developing T cells, or insufficiency of the progenitor cells to home and/or develop in the aged thymus. In young people the reduced thymic output is insignificant, since the peripheral T cell compartment is under compensatory homeostatic control. However, in more or less immunocompromised individuals, including aged people and patients depleted of T cells due to conditioning regimens before bone marrow transplantation or HIV infection, the thymus is necessary to replenish the peripheral T cell compartment. This may require rejuvenation of the thymus. Alternatively, approaches to generate mature T cells independent of the thymus have gained considerable interest.
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