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A peptide:MHC class II tetramer-based cell enrichment method was used to test this hypothesis at the level of a single epitope. We found that naive T cells with TCRs specific for the 2W:I-Ab epitope were present in the thymuses of 1-d-old CD57BL\/6 mice but were barely detectable in the spleen, likely because each mouse contained very few total splenic CD4+ T cells. By day 7 of life, however, the total number of splenic CD4+ T cells increased dramatically and the frequency of 2W:I-Ab\u2013specific naive T cells reached that of adult mice. Injection of 2W peptide in CFA into 1-d-old mice generated a 2W:I-Ab\u2013specific effector cell population that peaked later than in adult mice and showed more animal-to-animal variation. Similarly, 2W:I-Ab\u2013specific naive T cells in different neonatal mice varied significantly in generation of Th1, Th2, and follicular Th cells compared with adult mice. 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