Kei Kitamura

Lymph node development in human fetuses with special reference to the initial lymphocyte aggregation and intranodal sinuses

A mouse lymph node develops inside of five lymph sacs in the trunk. However, there are uninvestigated, numerous peripheral nodes. We chose histological sections from 38 human fetuses at approximately 8-31 weeks of gestational age (36 to 260 mm of crown-rump length). Three sites o...