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Normal Immune Responses of Bursaless Chickens to a Secondary Antigenic Stimulus

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Hormonal bursectomy—inhibition of the development of the bursa by testosterone—has been more effective than surgical bursectomy coupled with irradiation in depressing the primary response to soluble antigens. None of the treated birds was agammaglobulinaemic, and all formed some antibody.

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  1. Houghton Poultry Research Station, Houghton, Huntingdon

    M. ELAINE ROSE & EVA ORLANS

  2. Department of Animal Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge,

    M. ELAINE ROSE & EVA ORLANS

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ROSE, M., ORLANS, E. Normal Immune Responses of Bursaless Chickens to a Secondary Antigenic Stimulus. Nature 217, 231–235 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217231a0

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