title: [Immunomorphologic and ultrastructural features of the thymus in myasthenia].
abstract: Morphologic, ultrastructural changes in the epithelial component of the thymus in 41 patients with myasthenia are analyzed. Studies by histochemical, ultrastructural, and immunofluorescent methods revealed that the severity of the clinical course of myasthenia was related to the degree of changes in the epithelial component of the thymus, in its specific structures, Hassal's bodies. Effect of thymic epithelial component on lymphoid immunogenesis-regulating component was detected.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Odinokova
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Gurevich
authors.forename: E Ia
authors.initials: EIa
authors.lastname: Sanovich
authors.forename: B V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Agafonov
authors.forename: A Ia
authors.initials: AIa
authors.lastname: Ol'shanskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004848:Epithelium / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure
vernacular_title: Immunomorfologicheskie i ul'trastrukturnye osobennosti vilochkovoĭ zhelezy pri miastenii.