Abstract
Spontaneous thymoma was observed with an incidence of 97 and 36% in female and male rats, respectively, from an inbred Wistar/Neuherberg strain (W/Nhg). The thymomas often caused dyspnea and were occasionally the direct cause of death. The neoplasms resembled human thymomas and showed a variable cell composition, ranging from mainly lymphocytic to mainly epithelial. The detailed ultrastructural findings are described and compared with those in other rat thymomas and in human thymomas. A characteristic feature of all dividing lymphocytes was the presence of often multilayered, confronting cisternae. As in more than 50% of human thymomas, W/Nhg rat thymomas were not associated with myopathies or any other possibly autoimmune diseases. They may thus offer a useful model for the study of thymoma without associated parathymic syndromes.
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