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Amyloidosis, Spleen, Mouse

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Hemopoietic System

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Affected spleens are sometimes enlarged. Grayish, rubbery, glassy masses are found throughout the splenic pulp.

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  1. Bernard Sass
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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis, Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, 21701, USA

    Jerrold Michael Ward D.V.M., Ph.D. (Chief, Tumor Pathology and Pathogenesis Section) (Chief, Tumor Pathology and Pathogenesis Section)

  3. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Sass, B. (1990). Amyloidosis, Spleen, Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Ward, J.M., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Hemopoietic System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84110-1_38

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