Rother P, Krüger G, Hennebach U, Walter U
Z Alternsforsch. 1985 Jan-Feb;40(1):3-7.
The size of sections of lymph follicles in the pharyngeal tonsils of sixty-four children and juveniles between two and twenty-one years of age was determined histomorphometrically. The measurements were followed by linear regression and correlation analyses and determinations of mean differences by Student's t-test. It was possible to show that lymph follicles start decreasing in size already from the third year of life onward. Moreover, lymph follicle size decreases with the frequency of infections, and there is a positive correlation between the histomorphometrically determinable follicle size and the macroscopic size of the organ.
对64名年龄在2岁至21岁之间的儿童和青少年的咽扁桃体淋巴滤泡切片进行了组织形态计量学测定。测定后进行线性回归和相关性分析，并通过学生t检验确定平均差异。结果表明，淋巴滤泡从生命的第三年起就开始减小。此外，淋巴滤泡大小随感染频率降低，组织形态计量学可测定的滤泡大小与器官的宏观大小之间存在正相关。
