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Removal of the thymus at birth results in severely ...
Thymic lymphocytes produced before thymectomy are long-lived
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Memory T cells live for six months or less in healthy humans (Westera et al., 2013), whereas naive T cells can live for up to nine years
+ 2019-06-02T23:10:57Z
submitted by hayayah(229), 2019-05-15T15:51:56Z
By age 75, the thymus is little more than fatty tissue. Fortunately, the thymus produces all of your T cells by the time you reach puberty. They are long-lived and that's why you can lose your thymus without impairment of your immune system.