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The significance of neonatal thymectomy for shaping the immune system in children with congenital heart defects
The thymus plays an important role in the development of the immune cell pool; it serves as the primary location for T-lymphocyte maturation. Early cardiac surgical interventions for congenital heart defects are necessarily associated with thymectomy, i.e. the partial or complete removal of the thym...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Termedia Publishing House
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5767777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29354179 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2017.72231 |