Two hours after injection, mice were killed and the thymus glands harvested.
Twenty-hours after irradiation, mice were killed and the thymus glands harvested and processed for histology and immunohistochemistry as described.
The menu, like love, was full of delicate, gruesome things — cheeks, tongues, thymus glands.
"In 1993, there were concerns about this being a commercial transaction even though there was only a small token payment being made for these thymus glands and supply of thymus glands then stopped," he added.
In Debarking, Moore writes, "The menu, like love, was full of delicate, gruesome things – cheeks, tongues, thymus glands".
The company donated money to the hospital's cardiac department after receiving thymus glands from the operations.
"Up until 1993, these thymus glands were supplied to a pharmaceutical company for them to produce drugs which would allow us to treat children with aplastic anaemia.
Rudolf Signer, a Swiss scientist who had isolated the sample from the thymus glands of calves, had generously given it to Wilkins at a scientific meeting.
It's about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals.
Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool said thymus glands removed from youngsters during complex heart operations were sent to the company for research purposes between 1991 and 1993.
