Meet the editor

Professor Nima Rezaei obtained an MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Rezai also spent a short-term fellowship in Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Newcastle General Hospital. He is now Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of

International Affairs, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Deputy President of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the founding president of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Prof. Rezaei has already been the director of more than 50 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. He is an editorial assistant or board member for more than 30 international journals. He has edited more than 10 international books, has presented more than 400 lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 700 articles in international scientific journals.

Contents

Activity

Thymic Senescence *by Krisztian Kvell*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 49**

**Chapter 6 69**

**Chapter 7 75**

**Chapter 8 91**

**Chapter 9 103**

Introductory Chapter: Thymus - The Central Self-Tolerance System

*by Ildiko Bodi, Krisztina H.-Minko, Zsolt Prodan and Imre Olah*

Age-Related Thymic Atrophy: Mechanisms and Outcomes

Compartmentalization of Human Thymic Medulla: Facts and Hypotheses

Microarchitecture of the Thymus Gland; Its Age and Disease-Associated Morphological Alterations, and Possible Means to Prolong Its Physiological

*by Amene Saghazadeh and Nima Rezaei*

*by Arbab Sikandar, Shahzaib and Naeem Ullah*

*by Rachel Thomas and Dong-Ming Su*

Congenital Anomalies of the Thymus *by Ali Kouhi and Saeed Sohrabpour*

Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

*by Annette Rebecca Bijsmans and Robin Cornelissen*

*by Jianu Catalin, Jianu Silviana and Barsan Claudia*

The Effect of Atmospheric Pollution on the Thymus

*by Martha Ustarroz-Cano, Marisol López-Ángel, Nelly López-Valdez,* 

Clinical Presentation of Myasthenia Gravis

*Isabel García-Peláez and Teresa I. Fortoul*
