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  • noun Plural form of thymus.

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Examples

  • They compared gene-expression patterns in thymuses from four healthy mice that had spent 13 days aboard NASA's STS-118 Endeavor Space Shuttle to those from an equal number of control mice on the ground.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Mice genetically engineered to have tiny and dysfunctional thymuses survived better when infected with Burkitt's lymphoma and then treated, so it appeared the thymus was doing something to protect the tumor cells.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • They compared gene-expression patterns in thymuses from four healthy mice that had spent 13 days aboard NASA's STS-118 Endeavour Space Shuttle to those from an equal number of control mice on the ground.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • They compared gene-expression patterns in thymuses from four healthy mice that had spent 13 days aboard NASA's STS-118 Endeavour Space Shuttle to those from an equal number of control mice on the ground.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2010

  • They compared gene-expression patterns in thymuses from four healthy mice that had spent 13 days aboard NASA's STS-118 Endeavor Space Shuttle to those from an equal number of control mice on the ground.

    ScienceBlog.com - Science Blog: Science news straight from the source 2010

  • Low power images of spleens (first row) and thymuses (third row) have a total magnification of 21X.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John H. Ludes-Meyers et al. 2009

  • Histopathology of spleens (top four panels) and thymuses (bottom four panels) from 18 day old KO and WT mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John H. Ludes-Meyers et al. 2009

  • High power images of spleens in (second row) have a total magnification of 84X and thymuses (bottom row) have a total magnification of 44X. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0007775.t002

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John H. Ludes-Meyers et al. 2009

  • "Mice lacking the dCK enzyme have thymuses that are reduced in size by 90-fold.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "Mice lacking the dCK enzyme have thymuses that are reduced in size by 90-fold.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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