We here report the novel finding that the human adenoid gland can produce HMGB1, which also acts as an antibacterial factor. Adenoids were surgically removed from 10 children below 6 y of age that ...

The tonsils are lumps on each side at the back of the throat, whereas the adenoids are glands further up in the throat and behind the nose. They form part of the immune system. The tonsils and ade ...

Since 1923, when Dr. Richard Scammon first published graphs of growth patterns in the human body, it has been the medical consensus that the lymphoid tissues, which include the adenoids and ...

In a normal human there are 10 billion airway epithelial cells. Our estimate is that we have to correct about 10 percent of the cells. We performed the first transfer in rodent models [M.A. Rosenfeld ...

RUDN doctors have discovered genetic and viral causes of a frequent ENT disease in children - adenoid hypertrophy. The results are published in Life. Adenoid hypertrophy (AH), or their overgrowth ...

Tonsils and adenoids – the lymph organs (lumps) in the back of the throat and nose – are lymphoid tissue and assist with the immune system. Sometimes they are removed because they become ...