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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Transplant. 2020 Aug 26;24(7):e13795. doi: 10.1111/petr.13795

Table 5:

Effect of thymectomy in infancy

Type of cells Effect on number of cells References
Natural killer (NK) cells No change 103
CD4+ T cells Lower 27,99
CD8+ T cells Lower
No change		 27,99,101
T regulatory cells (Tregs) Lower 110
B cells Increase
No change		 103,104