thymus corticomedullary boundary
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003988
The dense region demarcating the thymus medulla from the surrounding cortex that is characterized by numerous blood vessels (predominantly arterioles) with some perivascular connective tissue, mature and immature T lymphocytes, dendritic cells, variable numbers of perivascular B-lymphocytes and plasma cells; site of entry of bone marrow stem cells and exit of mature, functional T cells. [ MP:0009543 ]
Synonyms: thymus CMZ, thymic cortico-medullary boundary, thymus corticomedullary zone, thymus cortico-medullary boundary, thymic corticomedullary zone, thymus corticomedullary junction, thymic corticomedullary junction, thymic corticomedullary boundary
Term info
- EMAPA:37974 (MA:th)
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
uberon
UBERON:0003988
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- anatomical junction and overlaps some cortex of thymus and overlaps some medulla of thymus
- mixed endoderm/mesoderm-derived structure
- protein-containing material entity
- anatomical junction
- part of some thymus lobule
- overlaps some cortex of thymus
- has part some dendritic cell
- contributes to morphology of some thymus lobule
- has part some lymphocyte
- overlaps some medulla of thymus
- has part some perivascular macrophage
- has part some arteriole