Although the mechanisms of cross-talk that regulate the hematopoietic and epithelial compartments of the thymus are well established, the interactions of these compartments with the thymic endothelium have been largely ignored. Current understanding of the thymic vasculature is based on studies of adult thymus. We show that the neonatal period represents a unique phase of thymic growth and diff...

Thymus allograft biopsies were performed in athymic infants with complete DiGeorge anomaly after thymus transplantation to assess whether the thymus allograft tissue was able to support thymopoiesis. Forty-four consecutive infants were treated with postnatal cultured thymus allografts. Thirty biopsies and six autopsies evaluating the allograft site were obtained in 33 infants, 23 of whom surviv...

The role of the thymus in the recovery of the sheep erythrocyte response after lethal irradiation has been studied in adult CBA mice with the hemolytic plaque technique of Jerne. This immunological parameter is markedly thymus-dependent. 10 wk after irradiation and after antigenic challenge the thymectomized animal has only one-twentieth to one-fortieth the number of plaque-forming cells as doe...

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...