Carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation (CASTLE) is a rare type of cancer that primarily affects the thyroid gland but can also occur in other tissues, such as the salivary glands.

By Dr Parinita Kaur As we age, our immune system undergoes significant changes that can affect its ability to protect the ...

In infancy the upper border of the thymus extends almost to the thyroid gland in the neck and the lower margin overlaps the upper part of the heart, occasionally extending as far as the diaphragm. It ...

Thyroid surgery in children and adolescents must be performed ... which is smaller than in adults and can be covered by the ectopic cervical thymus tissue, as the collateral RLN fibres innervate the ...

It affects the same organs of the lymphatic system (thymus, bone marrow, lymph nodes ... such as the spleen, as well as in the thyroid gland, salivary glands, tissue around the eyes, and other sites.

“Our discovery—the regulatory T cell recirculation back to the thymus—promotes repair through a process that hasn’t been described before and represents a novel pathway to regeneration ...

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 ...

Your thyroid is a small butterfly shaped gland at the front of your neck. It might be small but it plays a vital function by producing hormones that control how your body uses energy. The hormones ...

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