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Isolation and Transplantation of Different Aged Murine Thymic Grafts.
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Isolation and Transplantation of Different Aged Murine Thymic Grafts.

Published on: May 13, 2015

[Atopically transplanted thymus tissues are capable of distantly changing the metabolic status of the body]

A V Kulikov, L V Arkhipova, E G Novoselova

    Biofizika
    |January 14, 2009
    PubMed

    It has been found that the atopic transplantation of the thymus tissue from young animals in different variants is capable of significantly decreasing the rate of irreversible age-related atrophy of the thymus, which retards the age-dependent degradation of the T-cell unit of the immune system of the organism.

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