Fig. 4.
Engraftment of human fetal thymic and BM tissue implanted in SCID mice by CD4− CD34++ Lin− LDFL and CD4+ CD34++ Lin− LDFL progenitors. Generation of CD3+, CD4 SP, and CD8 SP and DP thymocytes by 50 HLA-A3− CD4+ CD34++ Lin− LDFL cells injected into an HLA-A3+ thymic implant 95 days before analysis. Note the presence of a small (<1.9%) fraction of CD3+ HLA-A3+ host cells (A). Generation of CD34+, CD19+, and CD33+ cells by 200 HLA-A3+ CD4+ CD34++ Lin− LDFL cells injected into human fetal bone fragments (HLA-A3−) 125 days before analysis (B). The data are shown using 3% (A) and 2% (B) linear-density contour plots with 1 degree of smoothing. Analysis of CD4 and CD34 expression on Lin− PI− LDFL cells before (C, left) and after FACS (C, center and right). Ten thousand PI− events were collected for the sort reanalysis shown. These sorted cells are donor B in Table 2 and donor D in Table 3.