Effects of submandibularectomy and castration on thymus and spleen weights in male mice.
Submandibular-sublingualectomy of male mice did not result in thymic hyperplasia or potentiate the thymic hyperplasia which occurs after castration. Hemagglutination titers to sheep red blood cells were similar in immunized sham operated and submandibular-sublingualectomized mice but significantly less than titers in castrated mice.
D000818:Animals; D002369:Castration; D006384:Hemagglutination; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology*; D013361:Sublingual Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology*