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  • adjective That lacks a thymus gland

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a- +‎ thymic

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  • This requirement has been previously demonstrated by the severe pulmonary granulomas and failure to eliminate the bacteria presented by athymic nude mice infected with

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  • Tang Y, Wang J, Scollard DA, Mondal H, Holloway C, et al. (2005) Imaging of HER2/neu-positive BT-474 human breast cancer xenografts in athymic mice using

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  • In athymic nu/nu mouse model, we further demonstrated that MA significantly suppressed pancreatic tumor growth, induced tumor apoptosis, and inhibited NF-kappaB-regulated anti-apoptotic gene expression, such as Survivin and Bcl-xl.

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  • This requirement has been previously demonstrated by the severe pulmonary granulomas and failure to eliminate the bacteria presented by athymic nude mice infected with

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Aline F. Oliveira et al. 2010

  • The anti-apoptotic role of TG2 was further confirmed in vivo using xenografts in athymic mice.

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  • Luthra R, Jones J, Aneja R, et al. (2005) EM012, a microtubule-interfering agent, inhibits the progression of multidrug-resistant human ovarian cancer both in cultured cells and in athymic nude mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010

  • Although, both N1N2K5 and RBP-JK5 mice develop a MPD, this was not observed in K14-TSLP tg mice or in the grafted athymic nu/nu mice which had 10-50x lower TSLP serum levels, suggesting that TSLP can only induce a MPD, when present at high concentrations.

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  • Thus, we transplanted the skin of control and N1N2K5 newborn pups onto athymic nu/nu mice.

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  • She's always been athymic but then she developed an autoimmune condition and now has progressed into a hyperIgM like condition where she has way too much IgM and not enough IgG and IgE.

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  • Luthra R, Jones J, Aneja R, et al. (2005) EM012, a microtubule-interfering agent, inhibits the progression of multidrug-resistant human ovarian cancer both in cultured cells and in athymic nude mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010

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