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==Histology== | ==Histology== | ||
===General=== | |||
Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/lymphoid/lymph03.htm http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/lymphoid/lymph03.htm]. Accessed on: 17 June 2010.</ref> | Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/lymphoid/lymph03.htm http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/lymphoid/lymph03.htm]. Accessed on: 17 June 2010.</ref> | ||
*No germinal centres. | *No germinal centres. | ||
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==Di George syndrome== | ==Di George syndrome== | ||
*Things go wrong with the thymus... very wrong. | *Things go wrong with the thymus... very wrong. | ||
==Thymus and stress== | |||
*Stress -> increased endogenous steroid -> lymphocyte death -> increased tingible body macrophages.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Toti P, De Felice C, Stumpo M, ''et al.'' |title=Acute thymic involution in fetuses and neonates with chorioamnionitis |journal=Hum. Pathol. |volume=31 |issue=9 |pages=1121–8 |year=2000 |month=September |pmid=11014581 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
==Thymic follicular hyperplasia== | ==Thymic follicular hyperplasia== | ||