PERITONEAL LYMPHOID CELLS

JM Yoffey

Abstract


The peritoneal cell population is in some
respects like that of connective tissue
elsewhere, allowing for differences which
may arise from the fact that its cells are in a
fluid matrix. The study of the peritoneal
cells may therefore contribute perhaps to our
understanding of some of the wider problems
of the connective tissues generally.
Of the non-granular cells of the
peritoneum, most attention seems to have
been paid in recent years to the monocytemacrophage
group, and relatively little interest
appears to have been taken in the
lymphoid cells. The present communication
draws attention to some of the reasons for
this state of affairs, and also notes some of
the gaps in our knowledge of the peritoneal
lymphoid cells, which present problems sui
generis.


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