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Mind Map by bethanylhann, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by bethanylhann
over 10 years ago
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Lymphoid Organs
- Lymph Nodes
- function as a filter
- 99% of antigens
- Remove debris and pathogens
- function as a filter
- Thymus
- Reduces in size with age
- Produces hormones important in the development and maintenance of normal immunological defences
- Produces Thymosin, important in the development and maturation of lymphocytes
- Reduces in size with age
- Spleen
- B and T cell immune response
- Removal of abnormal blood cells and other blood components by phagocytosis
- Storage of iron recycled from RBCs
- B and T cell immune response
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