title: A technique for complete thymectomy in adult rats.
abstract: 50 open thymectomies were performed in adult rodents using intubation combined with a fibrin glue able to prevent hemorrhage and pulmonary air leakage. This method had a 100% success rate and lower mortality than the ordinal suction procedure. Although the conventional suction thymectomy has been widely used, the open thymectomy method would permit more complete thymectomies for immunological studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kamada
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Enosawa
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Toyama
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delriviere
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lord
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stamatiou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyata
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011914:Rats, Inbred BN; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D013934:Thymectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000601:surgery*