Category:Lymph Nodes

Category:Lymph Node Responses in Disease

Role of the Lymph Node in Inflammation

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Diseases Involving Reactive Node Diseases

the Lymphocytes Parasitising Diseases

• organism grows in the lymphocytes and ruptures them
• if large infecting dose

- may be rapidly fatal since animal may no tb e able to mount an immunological attack

• if smaller infecting dose

- loss of mature lymphocytes causes a dramatic stimulation of the remaining lymphocyte precursors

- node hyperplasia follows

- competition between lymphocytolysis by the organism and lymphocyte production by the nodes

- clinically

- may be swelling of the node at one stage and reduction in size at another

canine distemper

• virus

swine fever

• virus

bovine east coast fever

• protozoan

Leishmaniasis in the dog

== Lymphadenopathy - Other

Haemal Lymph Nodes

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