Thymus dependence of tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta) elimination from mice.
Although normal mice eliminated the lumen-dwelling intestinal cestode Hymenolepis diminuta by day 21 post-cysticercoid inoculation, congenitally thymus-deficient (nude) mice maintained their work burdens. Nude mice grafted with thymus glands or injected with thymus cells eliminated their worms.
D000818:Animals; D002589:Cestoda / Q000276:immunology*; D006925:Hymenolepiasis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006926:Hymenolepis / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000276:immunology / Q000469:parasitology*