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. 1978 Sep;38(3):476–478. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1978.234

Incidence of spontaneous tumours in neonatally thymectomized rats.

P J Dawson, A H Fieldsteel, J McCusker
PMCID: PMC2009739  PMID: 708582

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