This important manuscript provides an extensive and convincing analysis of the foetal and adult TCR repertoire in the mouse thymus. A potential implication of the work is that the earliest appearing T ...

Carbon nanoparticles (CNs) have been widely used as a protective agent for the parathyroid gland and as a tracer agent in central lymph node dissection. However, the protection effect of CNs in ...

Insights gained from studying how thymus samples change before and after birth could help future researchers generate an artificial thymus, the first step in being able to engineer therapeutic ...

Hypoparathyroidism is a rare condition in which the body produces abnormally low levels of a hormone called the parathyroid hormone (PTH), which is key to regulating and maintaining a balance of ...

A relative survival rate compares people with the same type and stage of thymus cancer to people in the overall population. For example, if the 5-year relative survival rate for a specific stage of ...

Cancer that starts in the thymus gland is called thymus cancer. It starts when cells in the thymus gland grow out of control and crowd out normal cells. Thymus cancers are rare. The thymus is a small ...

US doctors say a young boy called Easton has made medical history by becoming the first person in the world to receive a combined heart and thymus transplant. The pioneering procedure was done to ...