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The issue of investigating dangerous influence of mycotoxins (toxic substance produced by mushrooms/fungi) is quite timely. Food or feed polluted by them cause various infections–mycotoxicoses. Mycotoxins influence organism in many ways. Immune system suffers particularly severely. The damage of the latter leads to high danger of virus and bacterial infection risk, efficiency of precautions decreases. This study aims to find out the effects specifications of Aflatoxin B1 on the morphofunctional several criteria of rats’ thymus. Summarizing the received data we come to a conclusion that the response of rats ‘thymus during the first 15 days may be described as an adaptive-compensatory (migration of lymphocytes increase), but during the second month retrospective, reactive changes begin to demonstrate in the organ, witness the increasing mast cells and the reduction of volumetric ratio cortex of lobes.