Childhood sleep-disordered breathing severity related to tonsil size, oropharyngeal volume
...up, the differences were not significant; and both tonsil and soft palate CSA correlated significantly with ...igh- and low-OAHI groups were found for the sum of tonsil and soft palate CSA, tonsil plus adenoid CSA, and the sum of tonsil, adenoid, and soft palate CSA; (...Adenovirus genes that thwart apoptosis pathways may promote viral latency
...atural pathway of cell death. In their studies of tonsil tissue, Dr. Gooding, along with graduate student Jeffrey Mahr and microbiologist Jeremy Boss, found that these genes might be activated by T lymphocytes, allowing adenovirus-infected cells to survive during persistent infection. In additional resea...... is usually found, consists of tiny (1mm) cubes of tonsil cultured onwet collagen sponges. The cubes, which...infected withT-tropic viruses, the response of the tonsil blocks to immunological challengeis suppressed, whereas M-tropic viruses have the opposite effect, m...