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Isolation and Transplantation of Different Aged Murine Thymic Grafts.
Published on: May 13, 2015
The ageing and myasthenic thymus: a morphometric study validating a standard procedure in the histological workup of
Philipp Ströbel1, Regina Moritz, Maria Isabel Leite
1Institute of Pathology, Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. philipp.stroebel@path.ma.uni-heidelberg.de
Journal of Neuroimmunology
|July 29, 2008
Abstract:
The thymus is believed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis (MG). The 80% of MG patients with anti-acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies fall into three clinical subgroups: 1) thymoma; 2) early-onset MG (
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