Open AccessHISTOPATHOLOGY OF LYMPHOID ORGANS IN NEWBORN INFANTS WITH THYMIC INVOLUTION
Author(s) -
Chino Fumitoshi
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1974.tb00826.x
Subject(s) - involution (esoterism) , thymic involution , histopathology , lymph , spleen , lymphatic system , pathology , biology , medicine , physiology , immunology , immune system , t cell , neuroscience , consciousness
Thymic involution was found In 16 of 29 newborn infants examined regardless of cause of death. Of the newborn infants with thymic involution, 5 newborn infants showed cellular depletion in thymus‐dependent areas (TDA) of the spleen and lymph nodes. In these infants, the thymic involutions were generally marked and the survival periods were 5 days long or more. The conditions for manifestation of the cellular depletion in TDA were discussed in connection with the results reported in animals.