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It is felt that on the basis of the reports quoted and on the above data, thymectomy by surgical methods has no apparent effect on the growth, development, or endocrine organ differentiation of the rat when performed at the age of 1-2 days and studied past the onset of puberty. Since surgical thymectomy results in no apparent effects as studied above, it is probable that irradiation thymectomy can have no further effect, and that the cause of the effects described 1 , 2 must be sought elsewhere.
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