Interest in the thymus greatly increased, however, when Blalock and his co-workers, 13 in 1939, reported clinical remission of myasthenia gravis after excision of a thymic tumor.

Once the patient's condition was stabilized, contrast-enhanced computed tomography was performed and showed a normal aorta with no evidence of hematoma (Figure 3). The thymus accounted for the ...

BRONCHOGENIC cysts of the mediastinum represent less than 5 per cent of all mediastinal masses in children and may cause respiratory distress in the infant. 1 Failure to make the correct diagnosis ...

Cervical ectopic thymus occurs primarily in males (85% of patients) and is slightly more common on the right than the left (56%). 1 Most patients are asymptomatic, although hoarseness, dysphagia ...

Gut's 'taste buds' help school the immune system in the thymus Thymic tuft cells play key role in preventing autoimmunity, mouse experiments show Date: July 18, 2018 Source: University of ...

Mark S. Anderson, Emily S. Venanzi, Ludger Klein, Zhibin Chen, Stuart P. Berzins, Shannon J. Turley, Harald von Boehmer, Roderick Bronson, , Christophe Benoist, Diane Mathis, Projection of an ...

From the following article Surgical therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease Renee C. Minjarez and Blair A. Jobe GI Motility online (2006) doi:10.1038/gimo56 ...

The ratios between the stomatal frequencies on the lower and upper epiderms of 110 specimens of Thymus have been counted. High ratios found in T. pulegioides L. are in accordance with earlier counts.

Defining the identity and the niches of epithelial stem cells with highly pleiotropic multilineage potency in the human thymus. Developmental Cell. 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.08.017.

In addition to the precursors of T cells, the thymus gland also contains other immune cells, the B cells. They develop in the bone marrow but migrate to the thymus in early childhood.