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- Title
Ultrasonographic measurement of thymus size in IUGR fetuses: a marker of the fetal immunoendocrine response to malnutrition.
- Authors
Cromi, A.; Ghezzi, F.; Raffaeli, R.; Bergamini, V.; Siesto, G.; Bolis, P.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which investigates the hypothesis that intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is linked with decreased thymus size in the fetus. It says that thymus, the key organ of the cellular arm of the immune systems, is a target organ in postnatal malnutrition. The study suggests that IUGR is related to a disproportionate small thymus which supports the theory that thymic involution is likely to be part of the fetal neuroendocrine response to intrauterine starvation.
- Subjects
FETAL development; THYMUS; IMMUNE system; MALNUTRITION in infants; NEUROENDOCRINE cells
- Publication
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0960-7692
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/uog.6320