Objectives: To determine normal spleen dimensions in a healthy collegiate athletic population ... Subjects also completed a medical history form to determine any history of mononucleosis infection, ...

But its main job is to act like a filter for your blood. Healthy blood cells flow through the spleen no problem. Bada-bing, bada-boom. But the damaged and dead cells get caught in a series of ...

These pathogenetic plasma cells in the spleen and lymph nodes were also found to be short-lived with a higher turnover rate than normal plasma cells, which tend to be long-lived. The data ...