Thymus cortex (rat, young adult)

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Title Thymus cortex (rat, young adult)
Creator Poels, Lambert G.
Contributor Lambert G. Poels, PhD, UMC St Radboud Nijmegen; Paul H. K. Jap, PhD, UMC St Radboud Nijmegen
Date 2010-06-11
Subject thymus cortex; epithelioreticular cell type I; epithelioreticular cell type II; lymphoid tissue
Description Electron microscopy. Type I epithelioreticular cells separate connective tissue compartment from the thymic parenchyma. With occludens junctions and desmosomes as barriers they form wide-mesh networks creating specific microenvironments for developing T cells. The extensions of type I cells (5) are located between the connective tissue capsule (3), trabeculae and the thymic parenchyma. The same cells surround the adventitial tissues of cortical blood vessels (4). Type II epithelioreticular cell (2) is located deeper in the cortex and surrounded by thymocytes, the organelles and granules-containing vacuoles are distributed in the squeezed branched projections. (1) part of a fibroblast and (6) thymocytes.
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Collection Poja Histology Collection - Lymphatic Tissues and Organs Subset
ARK ark:/87278/s6905614
Setname ehsl_heal
ID 890950
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6905614
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