The dense region demarcating the thymus medulla from the surrounding cortex that is characterized by numerous blood vessels (predominantly arterioles) with some perivascular connective tissue, mature and immature T lymphocytes, dendritic cells, variable numbers of perivascular B-lymphocytes and plasma cells; site of entry of bone marrow stem cells and exit of mature, functional T cells [ MP:0009543 ]
术语信息
- EMAPA:37974 (MA:th)
pheno_slim
The dense region demarcating the thymus medulla from the surrounding cortex that is characterized by numerous blood vessels (predominantly arterioles) with some perivascular connective tissue, mature and immature T lymphocytes, dendritic cells, variable numbers of perivascular B-lymphocytes and plasma cells; site of entry of bone marrow stem cells and exit of mature, functional T cells
thymus CMZ
thymic cortico-medullary boundary
thymus cortico-medullary boundary
thymic corticomedullary zone
thymus corticomedullary zone
thymus corticomedullary junction
thymic corticomedullary junction
thymic corticomedullary boundary
术语关系
- anatomical junction and has part some (part of some cortex of thymus) and has part some (part of some medulla of thymus)
- mixed endoderm/mesoderm-derived structure
- anatomical junction
- part of some thymus lobule
- has part some (part of some medulla of thymus)
- has part some (part of some cortex of thymus)
- has part some dendritic cell
- contributes to morphology of some thymus lobule
- has part some lymphocyte
- has part some perivascular macrophage
- has part some arteriole