however , using for the most part identical culture techniques , we have provided morphological , histochemical and functional evidence that the majority of murine thymic nonlymphoid cells grown in culture are epithelioid macrophages and that these macrophages and/or their soluble factors may be responsible for many functions previously attributed to thymic epithelium or `` '' purified thymic hormones '' '' .
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