One of the most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its ...

The thymus and the hypothalamus express PTH mRNA, making these organs potential auxiliary sources of PTH (ref. 1). Removal of the thymus in addition to the parathyroid glands caused mice to die ...

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at Ghent University, Belgium, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and ...

Children who were stripped of their Thymus glands during complex heart surgery may be more susceptible to all forms of disease and illness, our investigation has revealed. Scandal-hit Alder Hey ...