An epithelial cell of the cortical portion of the thymus. Epithelial cells in this region are required for positive selection of CD8-positive T cells. [ GOC:tfm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18403190 ]

Synonyms: cTEC

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

cellxgene_subset, human_reference_atlas

contributor

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

creation date

2010-09-23T03:17:12Z