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Science 12 February 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3659, p. 745
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3659.745
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Lymphocyte Lifetime in Women

Amos Norman 1, M. S. Sasaki 1, R. E. Ottoman 1, and A. G. Fingerhut 1

1 Department of Radiology, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

The lifetime of the lymphocyte in hematologically normal women is 530 ± 64 days. This estimate, made from studies on 25 women who had received radiation therapy for cervical carcinoma, is based on the rate of disappearance of lymphocytes with acentric chromosome fragments.


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