Key points:
1. Changes in the thymus caused at the immune disorders. Age involution and accidental transformation. Congenital diseases of the thymus: hypoplasia, dysplasia, thymomegaly.
2. The body's immune response to the antigens. Immunological tolerance.
3. Basics of the immune response. Humoral immunity. Cellular immunity. Immunological hypersensitivity: Morphological characteristics of anaphylaxy; antibody-mediated hypersensitivity; immunocomplex hypersensitivity; delayed-type hypersensitivity.
4. Autoimmune diseases: clinical and morphological characteristics.
5. Amyloidosis: classification, morphological characteristics.
6. Immunodeficiency: general clinical and morphological characteristics of primary and secondary immune deficiency. Immune deficiency syndromes.
7. Pathomorphological characteristics of changes in the organ at the early and late stages of transplantation.
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