Lymphatic tissues of the chicken consist of aggregates of lymphocytes of variable size frequently adjacent to blood vessels of the liver, digestive tube, etc., lymphatic vessels and the bursa and thymus. Malewitz and Calhoun ('58) found that
Detection of bursa and thymus-specific alloantigens in the chicken
β Scribed by Jane Galton; J. Ivanyi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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