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The thymus in the age of retirement

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Figure 1: The size of the thymus decreases with increasing age.
Figure 2: Representative Vα-Jα rearrangement at the T-cell receptor (TCR) αβ locus.

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Rodewald, HR. The thymus in the age of retirement. Nature 396, 630–631 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/25251

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