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Preleukaemic Syndrome in Germfree AKR Mice

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Some mice of the AKR strain reared under germfree conditions become thin and “hunched up”, with rough wet fur, depilation around the anus, shrunken thymus and enlarged lymph nodes. The histological appearance of the thymus and lymphoid tissue is similar to that in the early stages of mouse leukaemia

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POLLARD, M. Preleukaemic Syndrome in Germfree AKR Mice. Nature 213, 142–144 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213142a0

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