The mediastinum is a distinct space between the two lungs and contains the heart, great vessels, esophagus, trachea and the thymus and chest lymph nodes. Both blunt and penetrating trauma ...

It was an ordinary day at football training when the 13-year-old from Collie, Western Australia, felt early signs of the thymoma — a tumour that develops on the thymus gland. Kobi's mother ...

We discovered the function of the thymus and made key findings on the function of the two main subsets of lymphocytes, T cells and B cells. This was the fundamental basis for modern immunology.

“The bulk of Ed’s tumor burden was in the mediastinum surrounded by soft tissue, which made his case particularly advantageous for proton therapy as there was less interplay between air and tissue,” ...

By studying lamins, the nuclear structural proteins, we demonstrate that lamin-B1 functions specifically in the thymic epithelial cells (TECs) for proper thymus organogenesis. An up-regulation of ...

Now it appears that the thymus founds a line of cells that is responsible for the production of antibody Its function has been poorly understood, largely because the gland atrophies after childhood.

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialised X-ray technique by researchers from UCL and the Francis Crick Institute. These highly-intricate images showed that ...

Methods: From April 1993 to December 1999, 84 patients were referred for EUS-FNA. In all patients CT scanning had shown a lesion of the mediastinum suspected of malignancy located adjacent to the ...

The entire thymus and surrounding adipose tissue will be resected en bloc and retrieved in a plastic sample bag. A chest drain will be inserted through the intercostal space to complete the procedure.

Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1822, United States, and Division of Environmental Health Sciences, ...

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