The prevalence of human thymic lymphoid follicles is lower in suicides

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 436, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-130

  Middleton, George ^a   Schoch, Estelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accidental death; Human thymus; Lymphoid follicles; Psychological stress; Suicide; Thymic hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; THYMUS; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

EID: 0034008308     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008211     Document Type: Article

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