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NEONATAL thymectomy has a pronounced inhibiting or stimulating effect on the growth of tumours induced by various oncogenic viruses1–12. Our task was to investigate the role of thymus in the induction of Rous virus tumours. The interest of such experiments is that there are two organs in the chickens (thymus and bursa Fabricius), one of which has the functions of a mammalian thymus.
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RADZICHOVSKAJA, R. Effect of Bursectomy on the Rous Virus Tumour Induction in Chickens. Nature 213, 1259–1260 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131259a0
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