The interbranchial lymphoid tissue of Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar L) extends as a diffuse mucosal lymphoid tissue throughout the trailing edge of the gill filament

ABSTRACT Cover illustration. The teleost gill forms an extensive, semipermeable barrier that must tolerate intimate contact with the surrounding environment and be able to protect the body from external pathogens. The recent discovery of the interbranchial lymphoid tissue has initiated an anatomical...

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Published in:Journal of Morphology
Main Authors: Dalum, Alf S., Austbø, Lars, Bjørgen, Håvard, Skjødt, Karsten, Hordvik, Ivar, Hansen, Tom, Fjelldal, Per G., Press, Charles McL, Griffiths, David J., Koppang, Erling O.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015
Subjects:
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20431
https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjmor.20431
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jmor.20431
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Summary:ABSTRACT Cover illustration. The teleost gill forms an extensive, semipermeable barrier that must tolerate intimate contact with the surrounding environment and be able to protect the body from external pathogens. The recent discovery of the interbranchial lymphoid tissue has initiated an anatomical and functional investigation of the lymphoid tissue of the salmonid gill. In this issue of the Journal of Morphology, Dalum et al. (pp. 1075–1088) report about the novel interbranchial lymphoid tissue of Atlantic salmon. The cover image shows the interbranchial lymphoid tissue with its distal distribution in a gill filament presented with immune‐labelled T cells. It represents an evolutionary structure unparalleled by any other known vertebrate lymphoid tissue.

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