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Preferred Name

medullary thymic epithelial cell

Synonyms

mTEC

Definitions

An epithelial cell of the medullary thymus. This cell type expresses a diverse range of tissue-specific antigens. This promiscuous gene expression is a cell-autonomous property of medullary epithelial cells and is maintained during the entire period of thymic T cell output.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0002365

contributor

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1980-3228

creation_date

2010-09-23T03:17:14Z

database_cross_reference

BTO:0004563

has exact synonym

mTEC

in_subset

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl#cellxgene_subset

label

medullary thymic epithelial cell

part_of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002124

prefixIRI

CL:0002365

prefLabel

medullary thymic epithelial cell

textual definition

An epithelial cell of the medullary thymus. This cell type expresses a diverse range of tissue-specific antigens. This promiscuous gene expression is a cell-autonomous property of medullary epithelial cells and is maintained during the entire period of thymic T cell output.

treeView

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002124

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000066

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0002293

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