cortical thymic epithelial cell

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0002364

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. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18403190 GOC:tfm ]

Synonyms: cTEC

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Term info

database cross reference

BTO:0004562

Subsets

human_reference_atlas

contributor

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

creation date

2010-09-23T03:17:12Z

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

Term relations

Equivalent to:

epithelial cell and part of some cortex of thymus

Subclass of:

epithelial cell of thymus
part of some cortex of thymus