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Prenatal treatment with dexamethasone induces decreased thymic weight in adulthood. Body, spleen, thymus, and adrenal glands weight were measured at 3 months of age in rats prenatally treated either with saline or with dexamethasone. Each bar represents the mean + SEM, from eight to nine rats per group from one of four independent experiments.
