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LEUKOCYTES from patients with various lymphoproliferative diseases can be serially transplanted as malignant lymphoid tumours in immunosuppressed newborn hamsters1. We report that normal human leukocytes can also be transplanted into newborn hamsters treated with antilymphocyte serum.
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MIYOSHI, I., KUBONISHI, I., HAYASHI, T. et al. Production of lymphoid tumours in hamsters by direct implantation of normal human leukocytes. Nature 254, 272 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/254272a0
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