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Langerhans cells in the epithelium of the human palatine tonsil during the prenatal development
1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultatis Medicae
|July 31, 1998
Abstract:
In the 18th week of the prenatal life large light cells of mesenchymal origin enter the crypt epithelium of the palatine tonsil to start its reticularisation. They are considered precursors of Langerhans cells.