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I N RECENT YEARS there has been increasing evidence that the thymus may be the “master gland” concerned with lymphopoiesis nd immunit .1 In the mouse the thymus has been demonstrated to have a significant role in the pathogenesis of leukemia. Several different approaches have emphasized its importance. Thymectomy, in high leukemic strain mice, considerably reduces the incidence of spontaneous l...

Fifty-four White Rock hens were infested with 2,000 northern fowl mites/ bird and six hens were sampled at nine time periods during the 28,week study. Hens supported an average of 15,028 mites when mites were collected from infested bird carcasses digested with a modification of the Cook's technique. Mite-specific Ilrccipitating antibodies were quantified from hen serum samples with rocket elec...