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N Allegretti

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Influence of the thymus on the incidence of secondary and parabiotic disease.

The secondary disease in P leads to F1 strain combination depends upon the immune status of both partners. It is most clearly expressed if both donors and recipients are immunologically crippled by thymectomy and irradiation. Conspicuous reduction in the immune potential of parental parabionts induced by thymectomy and irradiation displayed their marked incidence of parabiotic death.

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Avoiding finalism.

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Allergy and Immunology

Ascitic versus solid growth of Ehrlich ascites tumor influenced by immunological factors.

A certain number of CBA mice injected intraperitoneally with 1 X 10(6) or fewer Ehrlich ascites tumor (EAT) cells did not develop ascites tumors but solid tumors at the inoculation site. The incidence of solid tumors proved dependent on the level of immunological reactivity of recipients, being increased in mice with increased immunological potency and absent in mice in which this potency was reduced. Mice bearing solid tumors had increased level of cytotoxic antitumor antibodies in serum. Possible reasons for a greater immune resistance of cells growing in subcutaneous tissue, than in the abdominal cavity, are discussed.

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Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in T-lymphocyte deficient rats.

Thymectomized, lethally irradiated rats reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow were injected with rat brain in complete Freund adjuvant mixture. Both, they and sham-thymectomized, irradiated and bone marrow protected rats displayed a higher incidence of leg paralysis than normal non-irradiated animals. Thymectomy lowered the incidence of the disease.

Adrenal Medulla

Yoshida ascites sarcoma grown in mice.

Xenogeneic Yoshida ascites sarcoma grows well in the abdominal cavity of thymectomized, irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow. These animals displayed a 100-percent mortality. In control sham-thymectomized, irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow mortality was significantly lower. The tumor growth could be neutralized by means of single intravenous injection of nonimmune spleen cells inoculated at the same time as the tumor. Tumor cells grown in mice killed normal rats and were rejected by normal mice.

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