Fig. 3From: Primary explants of the postnatal thymus allow the expansion of clonogenic thymic epithelial cells that constitute thymospheresCells derived from thymic explants can constitute thymospheres and present heterogeneous expression of stem cell markers. A Cells from primary explants were cultured using a hanging-drop generation system and constituted small thymospheres in 97.5% and large thymospheres in 2.5% of cases. B Different epithelial cells express the stem cell markers Sca-1, Lgr5 and CD146. C Various epithelial cells derived from explants express the integrin CD11b. B, C scale bar: 20 µm D = 100 n = 2. DIC = differential interference contrastBack to article page