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Thymic Epithelial Cell Capable of Differentiating Towards Both Cortical and Medullary Cell Type
A reticular epithelial cell generated in the thymus that, in optimal conditions, can become either a cortex type of thymus cell that mediates positive selection or a medullary type of thymus cell that mediates negative selection of developing thymocytes. (NCI Thesaurus)
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