Abstract
The morphological characteristics of the thymus in vitamin D-deficient rats were evaluated in utero. The thymus weight, thymus weight/body weight ratio and histological findings were found to be similar when the vitamin D-deficient rats were compared with the control animals. It is therefore concluded that vitamin D is not required for the morphological development of rat thymus.
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Copyright © 1993 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yurdakök M, Haziroğlu R, Topaloğlu H. Fetal thymus development in vitamin D deficient rats. Turk J Pediatr 1993; 35: 197-199.
