Volume: 39 Issue: 2
Year: 2008, Page: 40-43, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2008.39.40-43
Received: June 25, 2008 Accepted: Nov. 18, 2008 Published: Dec. 31, 2008
Erythrocytes were maximum post hatch. Thymic nurse cells, myoid cells (round forms) were seen more during involution. Regression started at 8 weeks, but recrudescence was seen at 14 weeks. hjkLamellated Hassel’s corpuscles and metaplasia of reticuloepithelial cells were common features of involuting thymus. Intracellular cysts and apoptotic changes were recorded.
Keywords: involution, giriraja, thymus, histology