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Thymus Atrophy and Double-Positive Escape Are Common Features in Infectious Diseases

The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ in which bone marrow-derived T-cell precursors undergo differentiation, leading to migration of positively selected thymocytes to the T-cell-dependent areas of secondary lymphoid organs. This organ can undergo atrophy, caused by several endogenous and exogenous...

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Autores principales: de Meis, Juliana, Aurélio Farias-de-Oliveira, Désio, Nunes Panzenhagen, Pedro H., Maran, Naiara, Villa-Verde, Déa Maria Serra, Morrot, Alexandre, Savino, Wilson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3307005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22518275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/574020