A. top: Schedule from fetal thymus organ culture (FTOC) to transplantation to analysis. bottom: An image of grafted thymi.
B. left: CD4 and CD8 profile of thymocytes in transplanted thymi. right: Percentages of CD4SP and CD8SP (WT, n = 4; HET, n = 4).
C. left: CD69 and TCRβ profile of thymocytes in transplanted thymi. right: Percentages of TCRβ+CD69+ and TCRβ+CD69- thymocytes (WT, n = 4; HET, n = 4).
Data are mean ± SD. Unpaired, parametric, two-tailed Student’s t-test was used for statistical analysis. p < 0.05 is considered statistically significant. ns: not significant.