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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Immunol. 2016 Oct 24;37(12):889–901. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2016.09.008

Table 1.

Generation of T Cells from Human Cell Sources

Starting cell type In vitro differentiation methods Approx. fold expansion Duration (weeks) CD8+ T cells? References
Cord blood HSC OP9-DL co-culture 10,000 7 Yes [17]
OP9-DL co-culture 100,000 6 Yes [21]
LSC-mDL1 co-culture 50,000 10 Yes [22]
Fibroblast-DL co-culture 50,000,000 2 No [86]
DL-coated ICC (feeder-free) ~1.5 2 Yes [87]
S17-DL co-culture N.D. 6 Yes [88]
Conditioned medium and immobilized DL N.D. 3.5 Yes [27]

Bone marrow HSC OP9-DL co-culture 10,000 6 Yes [21]
LSC-mDL1 co-culture 500 8 Yes [22]
DL-coated microbeads ~2 1 N.D. [26]

ESC OP9-DL N.D. 4 Yes [38]

iPSC OP9-DL ~25–150 4 No [38,43]