Thymic involution with ageing: obsolescence or good housekeeping?
AJT George, MA Ritter - Immunology today, 1996 - Elsevier
The thymus undergoes premature ageing in comparison with other organs of the immune
system, with involution starting soon after birth and continuing throughout life. Does this
reflect a failure of repair or is the process of adaptive value? Here, Andrew George and Mary
Ritter apply a cost-benefit analysis, and conclude that the scaling down of this organ has
been evolutionarily advantageous to our ancestors.
system, with involution starting soon after birth and continuing throughout life. Does this
reflect a failure of repair or is the process of adaptive value? Here, Andrew George and Mary
Ritter apply a cost-benefit analysis, and conclude that the scaling down of this organ has
been evolutionarily advantageous to our ancestors.