Abstract
“Educated” or “activated” thymus cells have been shown, by the use of “strong” histocompatibility antigens, to be immunocompetent only against the antigens by which they were originally activated.
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SPRENT, J., MILLER, J. Activation of Thymus Cells by Histocompatibility Antigens. Nature New Biology 234, 195–198 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio234195a0
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