[The morphological characteristics of the parotid and submandibular salivary glands following neonatal thymectomy].

The time course of structural and functional changes in the parotid and submaxillary salivary glands after neonatal thymectomy was considered. A combination of various methods including histological, histochemical, cytophotometric ones and transmission electron microscopy, was employed. They showed that neonatal thymectomy resulted in an increase in secretory activity of the salivary glands and was followed by hemolymphodynamic disorders and lymphoplasmocytic infiltration.