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Effect of Neonatal Thymectomy on Experimentally Produced Immunological Cardiac Lesions

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IMMUNOLOGICAL cardiac injury can be produced in experimental animals by the administration of: (a) homologous or heterologous heart extract with Freund's adjuvant; (b) passive transfer of humoral anticardiac antibodies; or (c) after passive transfer of cellular antibodies either through intravenous injections of immune cell suspension or by transplantation of immune spleens1.

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CHATURVEDI, U., MEHROTRA, R. Effect of Neonatal Thymectomy on Experimentally Produced Immunological Cardiac Lesions. Nature 216, 267–268 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216267a0

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