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The Sex-linked Difference in Rabbit Neutrophils

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IN most of the laboratory animals, including the mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig and rabbit, the sex chromatin discovered by Barr and his co-workers cannot clearly be demonstrated in the tissue cell nuclei1. Lüers, however, reported a sex difference in rabbit neutrophil polymorphonuclear leucocytes, comparable to the one Davidson and Smith had already described in the human, where the female sex is characterized by the presence of a ‘drumstick’ appendage of the nucleus in a small and variable percentage of the neutrophils2,3.

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  1. Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynæcology, University of Nijmegen, St. Radboud Hospital, St. Annastraat 315, Nijmegen

    P. J. CARPENTIER, L. A. M. STOLTE & M. J. DOBBELAAR

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CARPENTIER, P., STOLTE, L. & DOBBELAAR, M. The Sex-linked Difference in Rabbit Neutrophils. Nature 180, 554–555 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180554a0

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