Veterinary Immunology and Serology

LYMPHOEPITHELIAL GLANDS

• Structures located throughout the large intestine and caecum of horses, dogs, pigs and several other mammals.
• These consists of lymphoid aggregates that surround elongated intestinal or caecal glands to form submucosal diverticula.
• The arrangement resembles avian bursa and it contains many plasma cells suggesting that they are major sites of antibody production.