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Can you tell me how thymus act as lymphoid tissue?
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Immune system: Thymus produces white blood cells, called lymphocytes, that travel to lymph nodes throughout the body. There they help the immune system protect the body from infections.Thymus is gland in superior anterior mediastinum helping with immunity in childhood and usually involutes after puberty.
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