Title: Electron and light microscopic observations on relationships between lymphocytes and intestinal epithelium
Abstract: Abstract Correlated electron and light microscopic studies of the distribution, position, appearance, migration and fate of lymphocytes with relation to the intestinal epithelium of the young adult rat, mouse, hamster and man have been made. Under the conditions of this investigation, the lymphocytes which are normally present in the intestinal epithelium are intercellular in position, irrespective of their level within the epithelium. The great majority of these cells are located in the basal region of the epithelium, below the level of the epithelial cell nuclei. There was no evidence of lymphocytic degeneration. Lymphocytes migrated from the lamina propria into the epithelium and back again into the lamina propria, with no evidence of movement toward the free surface of the intestinal epithelium and extrusion into the lumen.
Publication Year: 1967
Publication Date: 1967-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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