The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
reduced number of thymocytes that have the cell surface marker phenotype CD4-negative, CD8-negative, CD44-negative, CD25-negative, and pre-TCR-positive.
Comment:
Note that this type of thymocyte has passed the beta-selection checkpoint and is rapidly proliferating and beginning to rearrange the T cell receptor alpha chain.
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
decreased DN4 alpha-beta immature T lymphocyte number; decreased DN4 cell number; decreased DN4 immature T cell number; reduced DN4 alpha-beta immature T lymphocyte number; reduced DN4 cell number; reduced DN4 immature T cell number; reduced DN4 thymocyte number