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Immunological recovery of thymectomized and sham-thymectomized lethally irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic hone marrow cells

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Immunological functions of lethally irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow cells recover after 5–6 weeks. In mice that had been thymectomized before irradiation and reconstitution, T-cell function is deficient but the B-cell function is preserved.

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  1. M. Marušić

    Present address: Department of Physiology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Medicine, Šalata 3, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

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  1. University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37830, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

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Supported by subcontract No. 3322 from the Biology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the University of Tennessee, and by the Fulbright-Hays Program. Present address: Department of Physiology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of

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Marušić, M. Immunological recovery of thymectomized and sham-thymectomized lethally irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic hone marrow cells. Experientia 35, 683–684 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01960398

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