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Pathogenesis of the Post-Neonatal Thymectomy Wasting Syndrome

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  1. J. F. A. P. MILLER: This work was carried out while one of us (J. F. A. P. M.) was a recipient of an Eleanor Roosevelt International Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.

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  1. Laboratory of Biology, National Cancer institute, and Laboratory of Germfree Animal Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

    K. R. MCINTIRE &  S. SELL

  2. Chester Beatty Research Institute, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, London, S.W.3

    J. F. A. P. MILLER

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MCINTIRE, K., SELL, S. & MILLER, J. Pathogenesis of the Post-Neonatal Thymectomy Wasting Syndrome. Nature 204, 151–155 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204151a0

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