B cells produce antibodies, which tag the pathogen for destruction ... During aging, an organ called the thymus shrinks. The thymus is responsible for immune cell production, and as it shrinks, it ...

These types of cancers develop in the cells that line the thymus gland (epithelial cells ... There are 2 main types, A and B. Type A thymomas usually grow slowly, but type B can grow quicker. They can ...

The team’s study results, published today in the journal Immunity, outline their discovery of a specific type of regulatory T cell that can home back into the thymus and repair the organ when it's ...

small DNA snippets in thymocytes—nascent T cells undergoing differentiation in the thymus—are randomly scrambled and reassembled, yielding more than 10 10 distinct variations. This random ...

Harald von Boehmer describes how he used mice transgenic for T cell receptor αβ to identify T cell receptor–dependent cellular selection and lineage commitment as mechanisms responsible for ...