Tonsillar Tissue Implants in Neonatally Thymectomized Mice
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- 1 July 1970
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 105 (1) , 38-42
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.105.1.38
Abstract
Palatine tonsils from 28- and 29-day fetal rabbits, and from 1-day-old rabbits were implanted into the abdominal cavities of 1-day-old mice thymectomized at birth. After 4 or 6 weeks the spleens of these mice showed restoration of follicular organization and repopulation by lymphocytes of thymus-dependent and perifollicular areas, as compared with thymectomized, non-implanted controls. These results clearly indicate functional similarities between palatine tonsillar tissue and thymic tissue.Keywords
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