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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Jan 18;18(2):157–167. doi: 10.1038/ncb3299

Figure 8. Model of the cellular niches occupied by c-Kit+ thymocyte progenitors.

Figure 8

Schematic diagram of the sequential interaction of c-Kit thymocyte progenitors with KitL+ VEC and cTEC stromal cells. The ligands found to be expressed by the different stromal cell subsets are indicated.