Vulnerability to stress-induced tumor growth increases with age in rats: Role of glucocorticoids

Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 662-666

  Sapolsky, Robert M ^a   Donnelly, Thomas M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ETHER; HISTAMINE; LYPRESSIN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLD; EXERCISE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SARCOMA; STRESS; VIBRATION; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; HYPERCORTICOSTERONISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGING; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLD; CORTICOSTERONE; ETHER, ETHYL; HISTAMINE; LYPRESSIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; STRESS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIBRATION;

EID: 0022113077     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-117-2-662     Document Type: Article

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