Kendall M D, Singh J
J Anat. 1980 Jan;130(Pt 1):183-9.
Biopsies of the right lobe of normal thymus glands without signs of neoplasia or germinal centre formation from 35 patients ranging in age from 20 to 60 years of age, and from 3 children aged 6, 7 and 12, showed on electron microscopic examination of the material from 14 patients that in 12 cases erythroid cells of all stages of development past the beginning of haemoglobinisation were present in some degree. Earlier erythroid cells could not be identified on morphological grounds with certainty, but cells which could have been lymphoblasts, proerythroblasts and stem cell were all observed. A section of a megakaryocyte was seen in one thymus. The importance of erythropoiesis within the thymus gland is briefly discussed.
对35名年龄在20至60岁之间且无肿瘤迹象或生发中心形成迹象的正常胸腺右叶进行活检，并对3名年龄分别为6岁、7岁和12岁的儿童的胸腺右叶进行活检。对14名患者的材料进行电子显微镜检查发现，在12例中，在一定程度上存在血红蛋白化开始后的各个发育阶段的红细胞。早期红细胞无法在形态学上明确鉴定，但观察到了可能是淋巴母细胞、原红细胞和干细胞的细胞。在一个胸腺中看到了巨核细胞的切片。本文简要讨论了胸腺内红细胞生成的重要性。
