Recent evidence in humans shows that even when the thymus is apparently
involuted in adults, it is still actively producing T cells.
Gordon
vborde at my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I would like to know what happens to a T-cells population (repertoire)
> when the thymus becomes non-functional, at the adult phase? Does this
> person lose all of her matured T-cells? Does she also lose her self
> tolerance and become vulnerable to autoimmune diseases? How does she
> keep her T-cells? Thank you.
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