Neonatal Thymectomy Increases Spontaneous Autoimmune Thyroiditis
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- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 110 (2) , 575-577
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.110.2.575
Abstract
Summary: Neonatal thymectomy of Obese strain chickens significantly increased the severity of spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis, assessed by histologic study at the end of 4 weeks. The effect is not due to surgical trauma to the thyroid gland. A balance between bursal function (which promotes the autoimmune disorder) and thymic function (which suppresses it) is thus apparent.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: