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Cervical thymuses exist, but no cervical thymomas develop in thoracic thymoma-prone BUF rats.
International journal of experimental pathology - 1 Apr 2011
Yamada Tetsuji, Matsuyama Mutsushi, Yanagida Takamasa, Kato Kazuo, Sugiura Seiji, Kuroda Makoto
Abstract excerpt
To confirm the existence of the cervical thymus and the development of cervical thymoma in thymoma-prone BUF/Mna (BUF) rats, we examined cervical organs and adjacent tissues, and thoracic thymic tissues of the three inbred strains, BUF, ACI/NMna (ACI), and WKY/NCrj (WKY), and 11 congenic strains, in which genetic regions of rat nude (Rnu), thymus enlargement-1 and thymus enlargement-2 (Ten1 and Ten2), thymoma...
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