Tags: Anatomical Structure.
The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system. Within the thymus T-cells critical to the adaptive immune system mature.Each T cell attacks a foreign substance which it identifies with its receptor. T cells have receptors which are generated by randomly shuffling gene segments. Each T cell attacks a different antigen. T cells that attack the body’s own proteins are eliminated in the thymus. Thymic epithelial cells express major proteins from elsewhere in the body.
