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The cure of osteopetrosis by allogenic bone marrow injection has been obtained in homozygous rats for both mutations, osteopetrosis (op) and athymic nude (rnu). This new animal model will help in studying the eventual relationship between the bone resorption process and the immunological reconstitution.