Table 2. Maternal protein deprivation does not alters the relative numbers of thymocytes in young rats.

	Control	Protein Deprivation
Body weight (g)	95.83±2.81	60.36±2.58*
Thymus weight (g)	0.41±0.01	0.30±0.02*
Relative thymus weight (g/g)	0.0046±0.0004	0.0044±0.0003
Total number of thymocytes (×108)	4.03±0.33	3.42±0.29
Total number of thymocytes/thymus weight (×105 cells/mg of thymus)	0.98±0.08	1.08±0.09

Results are expressed as means ± SEM; n = 9–16.

^*P<0.05.