"Thymus Gland" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A single, unpaired primary lymphoid organ situated in the MEDIASTINUM, extending superiorly into the neck to the lower edge of the THYROID GLAND and inferiorly to the fourth costal cartilage. It is necessary for normal development of immunologic function early in life. By puberty, it begins to involute and much of the tissue is replaced by fat.
| Descriptor ID |
D013950
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A10.549.750 A15.382.520.604.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Thymus Gland- Thymus Gland
- Gland, Thymus
- Glands, Thymus
- Thymus Glands
- Thymus
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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thymus Gland" by people in Profiles.
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Crockett AM, Kebir H, Benallegue N, Adelman P, Gur RE, Sullivan K, Anderson SA, Alvarez JI. Immune status of the murine 22q11.2 deletion syndrome model. Eur J Immunol. 2023 01; 53(1):e2249840.
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Postoak JL, Song W, Yang G, Guo X, Xiao S, Saffold CE, Zhang J, Joyce S, Manley NR, Wu L, Van Kaer L. Thymic epithelial cells require lipid kinase Vps34 for CD4 but not CD8 T cell selection. J Exp Med. 2022 10 03; 219(10).
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Chakrabarti S, Hoque M, Jamil NZ, Singh VJ, Pollacksmith D, Meer N, Pezzano MT. Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Contribute to the Maintenance of Thymic Stroma including TECs. J Immunol Res. 2022; 2022:6061746.
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Dou Y, Schindewolf E, Crowley TB, McGinn DM, Moldenhauer JS, Coleman B, Oliver ER, Sullivan KE. The Association of Fetal Thymus Size with Subsequent T Cell Counts in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. J Clin Immunol. 2020 07; 40(5):783-785.
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Sullivan KE. Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and DiGeorge syndrome. Immunol Rev. 2019 01; 287(1):186-201.
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Fishbein KW, Makrogiannis SK, Lukas VA, Okine M, Ramachandran R, Ferrucci L, Egan JM, Chia CW, Spencer RG. Measurement of fat fraction in the human thymus by localized NMR and three-point Dixon MRI techniques. Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 07; 50:110-118.
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Kucerov?-Levisohn M, Knirr S, Mejia RI, Ortiz BD. The 3'-Ja Region of the TCRa Locus Bears Gene Regulatory Activity in Thymic and Peripheral T Cells. PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0132856.
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Guyden JC, Martinez M, Chilukuri RV, Reid V, Kelly F, Samms MO. Thymic Nurse Cells Participate in Heterotypic Internalization and Repertoire Selection of Immature Thymocytes; Their Removal from the Thymus of Autoimmune Animals May be Important to Disease Etiology. Curr Mol Med. 2015; 15(9):828-35.
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Osada M, Singh VJ, Wu K, Sant'Angelo DB, Pezzano M. Label retention identifies a multipotent mesenchymal stem cell-like population in the postnatal thymus. PLoS One. 2013; 8(12):e83024.
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Gordy LE, Bezbradica JS, Flyak AI, Spencer CT, Dunkle A, Sun J, Stanic AK, Boothby MR, He YW, Zhao Z, Van Kaer L, Joyce S. IL-15 regulates homeostasis and terminal maturation of NKT cells. J Immunol. 2011 Dec 15; 187(12):6335-45.