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The Normal Thymus

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This chapter shortly describes key stages of the intrauterine development of the thymus and its postnatal continuation from infancy to old age. The immunohistochemical features and distribution of the major cellular constituents, i.e., thymic epithelial cell subsets, T cells, B cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, and myoid cells are depicted and a short overview on thymic function, thymocyte development, and thymic involution is given.

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  1. Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

    Alexander Marx

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  1. Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Deepali Jain

  2. Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Justin A. Bishop

  3. University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Mark R. Wick

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Marx, A. (2020). The Normal Thymus. In: Jain, D., Bishop, J.A., Wick, M.R. (eds) Atlas of Thymic Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3164-4_1

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