The effects of hormonal and early surgical bursectomy on the thymic development of the chick embryo
Hormonal bursectomy significantly reduces thymocyte numbers in 18 day embryonic thymuses when it is carried out on or before the fifth day of incubation. Early embryonic surgical bursectomy (at 72 hours in ovo) similarly reduces thymocyte numbers. When hormonal bursectomy and early embryonic surgica...
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| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20259 |