Your spleen might not get the glory of organs like your heart or brain, but its contributions to your immune system are ...

Don't worry about it. Check this out. The spleen's that soft, purple organ located right behind the stomach and under the lungs. It's about five inches wide and weighs about six ounces.

Contrary to established dogma, the spleen is not the principal source of the pro-inflammatory cytokine called tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which drives the sort of system-wide inflammation seen in ...

As People reports, Sarah Blackburn ended up getting her spleen surgically removed after doctors informed her that the scan had revealed a dangerous splenic artery aneurysm. Blackburn, who ...

Objectives: To determine normal spleen dimensions in a healthy collegiate athletic population. Methods: 631 Division I collegiate athletes from one university participated in the study. During ...

Figure 1: FACS analysis of spleen cells from BM-grafted uninfected mice, stained with PrP-specific antibody (open histograms) or unstained (shaded histograms). Figure 2: Confocal analysis of ...