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The thymus in the age of retirement

Hans-Reimer Rodewald ()
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Hans-Reimer Rodewald: the Basel Institute for Immunology

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6712, 630-631

Abstract: One of the long-standing questions in immunology has been whether the thymus -- the main site for the production of T cells -- remains active throughout life. This question has finally been answered by measuring the levels of a by-product of T-cell formation that disappears with age. And the answer is that the thymus is, indeed, active into old age.

Date: 1998
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