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Morphology and Immunohistochemical Phenotype of the Thymus in Secondary Immunodeficiency.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 Oct 2015
Struchko G Yu, Merkulova L M, Moskvichev E V, Kostrova O Yu, Mikhailova M N, Drandrova E G
Abstract excerpt
The thymus of outbred male rats 5 months after splenectomy (experimental secondary immunodeficiency) was studied by common histological and immunohistochemical methods using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to CD3, CD30, CD68, synaptophysin, to S100, p53, bcl-2, and Ki-67 proteins. Removal of the spleen led to acute involution of the thymic parenchyma, which was replaced by the adipose tissue and was...
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