The thymus is a target of multiple pathogens. How the immune system responds to thymic infection is largely unknown. Despite being considered an immune-privileged organ, we detect a mycobacteria-specific T cell response in the thymus following dissemination of Mycobacterium avium or Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This response includes proinflammatory cytokine production by mycobacteria-specific C...

C5-deficient mice grafted with thymus from C5-sufficient donors and immunized with C5 failed to make humoral antibody to C5, suggesting that the transfer of thymus had induced tolerance. Irradiated C5-deficient hosts repopulated with lymphoid cells from thymectomized C5-deficient mice grafted with C5-sufficient thymus also failed to respond to immunization with C5, thus showing that the state o...

Individuals with no thymus rapidly die from opportunistic infections due to total failure of the immune system. Experience in cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) known as AIDS clearly shows that the thymus gland and the thymus helper lymphocytes (T cells) dependent on it are destroyed in the course of the disease. This generally triggers a series of severe consequenti...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Experimental procedures 3.1. Reagents 3.2. Apparatus 3.3. Electrode preparation 4. Results and discussion 4.1. Preparation and characteristics of nano-SnO2 4.1.1. The preparation of nanoSnO2 4.1.2. The characteristics of nano-SnO2 4.2. Electrochemical behaviors of CFX at the nano-SnO2 modified electrode 4.2.1. Cyclic voltammograms of CFX at various modified electr...

Although the maturation and export of T cells from the thymus has been extensively studied, the movement of cells in the opposite direction has been less well documented. In particular, the question of whether T cells which have been activated by antigen in the periphery are more likely to return to the thymus had been raised but not clearly answered. We examined this issue by activating T cell...

The recruitment of lymphoid progenitors to the thymus is essential to sustain T cell production throughout life. Importantly, it also limits T lineage regeneration following bone marrow transplantation, and so contributes to the secondary immunodeficiency that is caused by delayed immune reconstitution. Despite this significance, the mechanisms that control thymus colonization are poorly unders...

1. Structural changes in the thymus during the evolution experimental renal hypertension were investigated to determine their possible role in the genesis of hypertensive vascular disease. 2. The thymus, adrenal glands and the progression of hypertensive vascular lesions were investigated in rats during the first 30 days after occlusion of the aorta between the two renal arteries. 3. Hypertensi...

Spleen cells from mice treated with cyclophosphamide (100 to 200 mg/kg) were unable to generate effective cytotoxic thymus-denived cells to allogeneic tumor cells in vitro. The inability of lymphoid cells from cyclophosphamide-treated mice to generate thymus-denived cytotoxic cells became more ap parent as the number of responding cells became limited. This depressed response was not due to the...