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IN recent years it has repeatedly been proved that neonatal or very young animals are very susceptible to carcinogenesis induced by different agents. One possible explanation is that tissues of new-born animals contain a large number of incompletely differentiated cells, particularly responsive to carcinogenic stimuli. It is relevant to this speculation that a close correlation has been noted between susceptibility of mice to develop malignant lymphomas and the presence in the thymus of a great concentration of immature cells, whether by reason of early age1, genetic constitution2, whole-body X-irradiation3, or regenerative changes in implanted thymus4. In thymectomized, virus-inoculated5 or X-irradiated4 mice, implantation of new-born thymus proved much more effective than adult thymus in restoring leukaemogenesis.
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FIORE-DONATI, L., CHIECO-BIANCHI, L., TRIDENTE, G. et al. Induction of Malignant Lymphomas by Urethane in Adult Mice bearing Syngeneic Thymus Grafts. Nature 208, 398 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208398a0
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