Lymphoid Progenitor Cells

[IneptStudent]

What exactly are these lymhoid progenitor cells? please post your possible answers as they are greatly appreciated.

[MrMistery]

lymphoid progenitor cells are the cells that create new white blood cells. you will find them in the bone marrow, lymph nodes and thymus

[Dr.Stein]

Lymphoid progenitor cells are only found in primary lymphoid organs, i.e. bone marrow, bursa Fabricius, and thymus, provided as repertoire. The ones found in lymph nodes and other secondary lymphoid organs are cells that already undergoing education, selection, maturation, and differentiation to be capable to recognize antigens.

[victor]

The ones found in lymph nodes and other secondary lymphoid organs are cells that already undergoing education, selection, maturation, and differentiation to be capable to recognize antigens.

come out as a naive cells..I like "naive" words..

[MrMistery]

bursa Fabricius.. What's that?

[IneptStudent]

Then what is the difference between these cells and 'null' cells? They both seem to be an early stage of bone marrow cells

[Dr.Stein]

bursa Fabricius.. What's that?

It is a dorsal diverticulum of bird's cloaca, the origin of B-cells in addition to that ones produced in bone marrow in where B-cells undergo proliferation, education, and differentiation.



Hehe my picture

[Dr.Stein]

Then what is the difference between these cells and 'null' cells? They both seem to be an early stage of bone marrow cells

Null cell or killer cell (K cell) is a class of lymphocytes characterized by a lack of surface markers specific for either T or B lymphocytes. There is another type of lymphocytes called natural killer cell (NK cell), this type also lacks of that surface marker (CD3). K cell and NK cell has a difference on how they kill their target cells, K cell kills with a mechanism called ADCC (antibody-dependent cytotoxicity), whereas NK cells is antibody-independent.

[Dr.Stein]

The ones found in lymph nodes and other secondary lymphoid organs are cells that already undergoing education, selection, maturation, and differentiation to be capable to recognize antigens.

come out as a naive cells..I like "naive" words..

Naah, naive cells are the ones that have maturated in primary lymphoid organs but have not yet encountered antigen. The other word for this is "virgin"

[victor]

I can guess that the picture above is your handmade picture..

[MrMistery]

No, that looks like a Vesalius

[Dr.Stein]

Actually I got it from Google aww