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Science 12 December 1975:
Vol. 190. no. 4219, pp. 1101 - 1103
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081275
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Science, Vol 190, Issue 4219, 1101-1103
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Thymus: central role in the immune system of the frog

EP Volpe and JB Turpen

In the leopard frog (Rana pipiens), the thymus profoundly influences immunologic development by providing virtually all the progenitor lymphocytic cells for the bone marrow and other peripheral lymphoid organs. The thymus houses a self-perpetuating population of lymphopoietic cells that originally self-differentiated in that gland.


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