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AN amazing difference with regard to wasting following thymectomy has been observed between male and female hamsters; males showed severe runting even if thymectomized at up to 4 weeks of age, while females never runted at all1. No such differences have been reported for other species, though there may be such a difference for neonatally thymectomized rats (R. A. Good, personal communication).
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BALENER, H., DERSJANT, H. Sex Difference for Immune Depression and Runting in Neonatally Thymectomized Mice. Nature 209, 815–816 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209815a0
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