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Nutrition disorders and immunologic parameters: study of the thymus in growing rats.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) - 1 Sept 2001
Pallaro A N, Roux M E, Slobodianik N H
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OBJECTIVES: We studied the effect of a low-quality dietary protein on cellular proliferation and maturation in the thymus of growing rats over time. METHODS: After weaning Wistar rats were fed a diet containing 6.5 g/100 g of corn flour for 6, 10, 18, and 45 d (M groups). For comparison, other rats were fed a diet containing 6.5 g/100 g of casein (Cas groups), and well-nourished age-matched control rats were fed...
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