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Acute Thymic Involution

The sudden shrinking and/or complete disappearance of the thymus gland; this often happens as a response to a physiologic stressor, such as infection… 
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2020
2020
Does in utero meconium passage in term stillbirth correlate with autopsy and placental findings of hypoxia or inflammation?
Abstract Background The cause of meconium passage in utero is controversial, traditionally being considered evidence of fetal… 
2015
2015
Acute Thymic Involution in Unexplained Third Trimester Stillbirth: Frequency, Grade, and Correlation with Neuropathologic Injury
Many 3rd-trimester stillbirths are unexplained, including the time course of the illness. Histologic acute thymic involution (ATI… 
2015
2015
Thymic pathology in placental abruption: an autopsy study of third trimester stillborns in a predominantly African–American population
Abstract Objective: Complete placental abruption results rapidly in fetal death through acute asphyxia, and identification of… 
1994
1994
Glucocorticoid independence of acute thymic involution induced by lymphotoxin and estrogen.
Acute thymic involution is known to be induced under conditions of physical stress, bacterial infections, and malignancies. It is… 
1992
1992
Mixed interleukins and thymosin fraction V synergistically induce T lymphocyte development in hydrocortisone-treated aged mice.
1989
1989
Thymic response to thermal injury in mice: I. Alterations of thymocyte subsets studied by flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry.
1987
1987
Acute thymic involution and increased lipoperoxides in thymus of nickel chloride-treated rats.
Acute thymic involution occurred in male, Fischer-344 rats following a single injection of nickel chloride (0.5 mmol/kg, sc). In… 
1971
1971
Electron microscopic study on acute thymic involution induced by polyoma virus infection.
1968
1968
Involution and regeneration of the thymus in mice, induced by bacterial endotoxin and studied by quantitative histology and electron microscopy.
Lipopolysaccharide from S. typhosa, injected intraperitoneally into Swiss albino mice, produced acute thymic involution—maximal… 
1966
1966
The effect of estradiol and irradiation on the nucleic acid metabolism of the thymus, spleen, lymph node, and liver of mice.
Estrogenic hormones regularly cause acute thymic involution in the intact animal (1, 2). Their effects on lymphatic tissues other… 
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