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The thymus is known to play a central part in the establishment of immunological competence. The following three articles describe experiments aimed at defining the nature of the cellular basis for the immunological deficiency of neonatally thymectomized mice.
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MILLER, J., MITCHELL, G. & WEISS, N. Cellular Basis of the Immunological Defects in Thymectomized Mice. Nature 214, 992–997 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214992a0
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