Development of Hassall's bodies of the thymus in humans and other vertebrates (especially mammals) under physiological and pathological conditions: Immunocytochemical, electronmicroscopic and in vitro observations

In Vivo

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-85

  Bodey, Bela ^a,d   Kaiser, Hans E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary involvement; Immunocytochemistry; Immunophenotype (IP); Morphological observations; Mouse antihuman monoclonal antibody (MoAB); Origin of the Hassall's bodies (HBs) hypotheses; Reticulo epithelial cell origin of HBs; Scanning electronmicroscope (SEM) study; Streptavidin biotin antigen detection technique; Thymic involution; Thymic ontogenesis in vertebrates; Thymic organ and tissue cultures; Total body and local thymic irradiation; Transmission electronmicroscope (TEM) observation

Indexed keywords

ACID GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; KERATIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DESMOSOME; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICROSCOPY; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRATUM CORNEUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

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