Differentiation antigen

Hi, I am looking for some basic information about differentiation in general. Do cells actively divide during the differentiation process? I mean, when a progenitor cell is activated (by antigen or some other stimuli), do they keep dividing during the various stages of ...

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Hi, I am looking for some basic information about differentiation in general. And T-cell differentiation is a great system. Since ... the differentiation process? I mean, when a progenitor cell is activated (by antigen or some other stimuli), do they keep dividing during the various stages ...

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... for the explanation biohazard. I think i've got it now: The T cells are produced in the thymus as naive CD4+ and CD8+ cells and then recognise the antigen in the lymph nodes (mainly) but recently there have been RTE's discovered which are not yet CD4 or CD8 positive and differentiate upon activation

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There are differen stages of differentiation. For CD4+ cells, for example, there are so-called recent thymic emigrants ... RTEs are naive T cells in a sense that they are yet to encounter their specific antigen in the periphery. Furthermore, they are not yet deviated into any T helper or ...

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... component capable of stimulating the specific immunity is called an antigen. Antigens may happen as free molecules or as molecular structures ... in lymphocytes T (thymus), while B (bone marrow) cells continue their differentiation in the bone marrow. In the thymus, lymphocytes acquire, by ...

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