The effect of a purified bovine thymus gland extract (Dr. Kurt Mulli, GmbH, Hamburg, West Germany) was studied in 12-week old male Wistar rats on the following: thyroid weights and morphology ...

Children who were stripped of their Thymus glands during complex heart surgery may be more susceptible to all forms of disease and illness, our investigation has revealed. Scandal-hit Alder Hey ...

The adaptive immune system is an antigen-specific structure that discriminates non-self molecules through the recognition of peptide antigens using receptor interactions between T-cells and ...

For instance, pig hearts, kidneys, and thymus glands have been transplanted into a limited number of human patients for short durations. But experts caution that it may take years before animal ...

They are differentiated from hematopoietic progenitors and matured in the thymus, before being released into the bloodstream. These immune cells are then able to recognize antigens presented by major ...

1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr S M Park Department of Clinical ...

One of the key players in mediating pro-inflammatory signaling is the Janus Kinase (JAK) 1/2. Signaling via JAK1/2 and signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathways are crucial for ...

Objective The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a mouse population model with diverse and reproducible genetic backgrounds used to identify novel disease models and genes that contribute to human disease.