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What is Thymectomy causes - and explain in detail?
• In adult life, thymectomy has no demonstrable effect on antibody response or upon homograft survival.
• However, it has been shown that thymectomy in adult mice, combined with total body irradiation, can result in homograft tolerance of a high degree.
• This finding suggests that the thymus gland may resume its perceptor function in adult life under circumstances in which there is temporary suppression of the lymphopoietic system.