Astley Cooper
Anatomy of the Thymus Gland (1832); Anatomy of the Breast (1840). Many of Cooper's original experimental and surgical specimens ... the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. Cooper was born at ...
Ectopic thymus
Lavini, Corrado; Moran, Cesar A.; Morandi, Uliano; Schoenhuber, Rudolf (2009-05-08). Thymus Gland Pathology: Clinical, ... Ectopic thymus is a condition where thymus tissue is found in an abnormal location. It usually does not cause symptoms, but may ... Given the thymus's role in the body's adaptive immune system, it should be confirmed that the patient has a mediastinal thymus ... When the thymus tissue fails to descend appropriately or fails to involute, thymus tissue remains in various locations along ...
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
Nucleotide polymerizing enzymes from calf thymus gland". Nucleotide polymerizing enzymes from calf thymus gland. Methods in ... Chang LM, Bollum FJ (April 1970). "Doxynucleotide-polymerizing enzymes of calf thymus gland. IV. Inhibition of terminal ... TdT is expressed mostly in the primary lymphoid organs, like the thymus and bone marrow. Regulation of its expression occurs ... Bollum FJ (August 1960). "Calf thymus polymerase". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 235 (8): 2399-403. doi:10.1016/S0021- ...
Neural top-down control of physiology
There is sympathetic innervation of the thymus gland. Sympathetic control exists over antibody production, and the modulation ... control over the pupil and salivary glands) and X (vagus -many functions including immunity) and sacral spinal segments ( ... "Transneuronal mapping of the CNS network controlling sympathetic outflow to the rat thymus". Autonomic Neuroscience. 131 (1-2 ...
Graft-versus-host disease
eds.). Thymus Gland Pathology: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Features. pp. 255-267. doi:10.1007/978-88-470-0828-1_30. ... Thymus transplantation may be said to be able to cause a special type of GvHD because the recipient's thymocytes would use the ... In these patients rather than a donor being a source of pathogenic T cells, the patient's own malignant thymus produces self- ... Markert ML, Devlin BH, McCarthy EA, Chinn IK, Hale LP (2008). "Thymus Transplantation". In Lavini C, Moran CA, Morandi U, et al ...
Nezelof syndrome
Lavini, Corrado; Moran, Cesar A.; Uliano, Morandi; Schoenhuber, Rudolf (2009). Thymus Gland Pathology: Clinical, Diagnostic and ... Lavini, Corrado; Moran, Cesar A.; Uliano, Morandi; Schoenhuber, Rudolf (2009-05-08). Thymus Gland Pathology: Clinical, ... Antimicrobial therapy IV immunoglobulin Bone marrow transplantation Thymus transplantation Thymus factors List of radiographic ... ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6. "Immune defect due to absence of thymus , Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) - an ...
Epitalon
Khavinson, VKh; Morozov, VG (2003). "Peptides of pineal gland and thymus prolong human life". Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 24 (3): ... Epitalon and epithalamin appear to restore melatonin secretion by the pineal gland in both aged monkeys and humans. A human ... Epitalon appears to increase the proliferation of lymphocytes in the thymus, putatively increasing production of interferon ... Kozina, LS; Arutjunyan, AV; Khavinson, VKh (2007). "Antioxidant properties of geroprotective peptides of the pineal gland". ...
List of -ectomies
Thymectomy is the surgical removal of the thymus gland. Thyroidectomy is the removal of all or part of the thyroid gland. ... Prostatectomy is the removal of the prostate gland. This may be either all of the gland, which is known as a radical ... Adenectomy is the surgical removal of a gland. Adenoidectomy is the surgical removal of the adenoids, also known as the ... Pinealectomy is the surgical removal of the pineal gland, used often on birds to study circadian rhythms. Pneumonectomy is the ...
Germ layer
... and the follicle lining of the thyroid gland and thymus. The endoderm forms: the pharynx, the esophagus, the stomach, the small ... The surface ectoderm develops into: epidermis, hair, nails, lens of the eye, sebaceous glands, cornea, tooth enamel, the ... It also forms the lining cells of all the glands which open into the digestive tract, including those of the liver and pancreas ...
Thymus hyperplasia
"eMedicine - Surgery of the Thymus Gland : Article by Said Fadi Yassin". 2019-02-26. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires , ... Thymus hyperplasia refers to an enlargement ("hyperplasia") of the thymus. It is not always a disease state. The size of the ... June 2007). "Thymic hyperplasia and thymus gland tumors: differentiation with chemical shift MR imaging". Radiology. 243 (3): ... Before the immune function of the thymus was well understood, the enlargement was sometimes seen as a cause for alarm, and ...
Cardiac neural crest
Other ectomesenchymal cells will form the thymus and parathyroid glands. Prior to migration, during a process known as ... parathyroid and thymus glands. They differentiate into melanocytes and neurons and the cartilage and connective tissue of the ... Due to its population in pharyngeal arches, removal of the cardiac neural crest complex has flow on effects on the thymus, ... In the pharyngeal arches the CNCCs assist in the formation of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. The leading cells have long ...
Myasthenia gravis
The thymus gland cells form part of the body's immune system. In those with myasthenia gravis, the thymus gland is large and ... It sometimes contains clusters of immune cells that indicate lymphoid hyperplasia, and the thymus gland may give wrong ... they are often given a chest X-ray and CT scan to evaluate their need for surgical removal of their thymus glands and any ... Surgery in the case of MG involves the removal of the thymus, although in 2013, no clear benefit was indicated except in the ...
Henry Harrington Janeway
Janeway, H. H. (1920). The treatment of malignant tumors of the thymus gland by radium. Annals of surgery, 71(4), 460. Janeway ...
Bernard Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz died due to thymus gland cancer on May 21, 2004. Lueck, Thomas J. (May 25, 2004). "Bernard Lefkowitz, 66; Wrote of ... Deaths from thymus cancer, Jewish American writers, Journalists from New York City, 20th-century American Jews, 21st-century ...
Culinary name
... soft roe or white roe to disguise that is actually sperm not eggs Thymus gland and pancreas gland: sweetbreads Kangaroo meat: " ... Examples include veal (calf), calamari (squid), and sweetbreads (pancreas or thymus gland). Culinary names are especially ...
Thymic cancer
... is a general term for a cancer of the thymus gland. Thymic carcinoma Thymoma This article includes a list of ...
Apoptosis-inducing factor, mitochondria-associated 3
Lin'kova NS, Katanugina AS, Khavinson VKh (2011). "[Expression of AIF and CGRP markers in pineal gland and thymus during aging ...
FAM71E2
There is also lower expression in the brain, mammary gland, prostate, and thymus. FAM71E2 has also been expressed in breast ( ... mammary gland) tumor and normal tissues. The graph on the right is from a study analyzing the Metaphase II stage oocytes ...
T cell
Developing T cells then migrate to the thymus gland to develop (or mature). T cells derive their name from the thymus. After ... The thymus contributes fewer cells as a person ages. As the thymus shrinks by about 3% a year throughout middle age, a ... The earliest cells which arrived in the thymus are commonly termed double-negative, as they express neither the CD4 nor CD8 co- ... Regulatory T cells can develop either during normal development in the thymus, and are then known as thymic Treg cells, or can ...
Thorax
The contents of the thorax include the heart and lungs (and the thymus gland); the major and minor pectoral muscles, trapezius ... It contains organs including the heart, lungs, and thymus gland, as well as muscles and various other internal structures. Many ...
Face and neck development of the human embryo
The third pharyngeal pouch will give rise to the inferior parathyroid gland and thymus. The fourth and fifth pouches develop as ... a unique structure that molds the superior parathyroid and parafolicular cells of thyroid gland. Initially, pharyngeal grooves ...
Thomas Boehm (biologist)
Experiments with the production of artificial thymus glands have also been successful. More recent work deals with the ... He was able to achieve groundbreaking advances in the study of the thymus. With the help of comparative studies of different ... Boehm, Thomas (2008). "Thymus development and function". Current Opinion in Immunology. Elsevier BV. 20 (2): 178-184. doi: ... Boehm deals with the evolution of the immune system, the development of the thymus and the relationships between lymphocytes ...
HOXA3
Knockout of HoxA3 leads to failure in forming the thymus (athymia) and parathyroid gland (aparthyroidism). Mutant HoxA3 also ... Expression of HoxA3 in these cells affects the proper formation of the thymus, thyroid, and parathyroid organs. While the gene ... Manley NR, Capecchi MR (March 1998). "Hox group 3 paralogs regulate the development and migration of the thymus, thyroid, and ... Manley NR, Capecchi MR (July 1995). "The role of Hoxa-3 in mouse thymus and thyroid development". Development. 121 (7): 1989- ...
Regeneration in humans
The thymus gland is one of the first organs to degenerate in normal healthy individuals. Researchers from the University of ... Other organs and body parts that have been procured to regenerate include: penis, fats, vagina, brain tissue, thymus, and a ... Blackburn, CC (April 2014). "Regeneration of the aged thymus by a single transcription factor". Development. 141 (8): 1627-1637 ... penis and the thymus. In 2014, a conceptual human lung was first bioengineered in the lab. In 2015, the lab robustly tested its ...
X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency
The thymus gland in normal patients will gradually decrease in size because the need for the thymus gland diminishes. The ... a patient with X-SCID will be born with an abnormally small thymus gland at birth. This indicates that the function of thymus ... decrease in the size of the thymus gland occurs because the body already has a sufficient number of developed T-cells. However ... gland, of forming developed T-cells, has been impaired. Since the mutation in X-SCID is X-linked, there are genetic tests for ...
13q deletion syndrome
These include underdevelopment or agenesis of the pancreas, adrenal glands, thymus, gallbladder, and thyroid; Hirschsprung's ...
Geoffrey Keynes
Keynes pioneered the removal of the thymus gland, which is now the standard treatment for myasthenia gravis. In 1955 Keynes ...
Histiocyte
Skin Langerhans cells express CD1a, as do cortical thymocytes (cells of the cortex of the thymus gland). They also express S- ...
IFFO1
Medium expression is seen in several areas such as the adrenal gland, colon, lymph nodes, thymus, and ovary. The tissue areas ... and especially in the salivary gland. However, the gene has been found to be highly expressed in chondrosarcoma. Chondrosarcoma ...
Blood
In addition, during childhood, the thymus gland, found in the mediastinum, is an important source of T lymphocytes. The ... Relative rates of blood flow per 100 g of tissue are different, with kidney, adrenal gland and thyroid being the first, second ... while hormones are produced by the endocrine glands and the watery fraction is regulated by the hypothalamus and maintained by ...