Abstract
THE majority of the lymphoid tissue in the alimentary canal of normal rabbits is in the appendix, which in fact contains about a half of the total body complement1. It forms an active lymphoepithelial system2 which interchanges bacterial and tissue cells with the gut lumen.
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ENTICKNAP, J. Survival of Normal Rabbits after Appendectomy. Nature 178, 750–751 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178750c0
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