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Human thymus. Cortex and medulla #258411487
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Low power light microscope micrograph of a human thymus gland stained with HE. The thymic parenchyma is composed of small lobules separated by adipose tissue showing a dark peripheral cortex and a central clear medulla. The peripheral cortex appears more stained, due to the high density of T-lymphocyte precursor cells. In the paler centre of each lobule there are many Hassall`s corpuscles. The