Diminished glucocorticoid tonus in obese strain (OS) chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis: Increased plasma levels of a physicochemically unaltered corticosteroid-binding globulin but normal total corticosterone plasma concentration and normal glucocorticoid receptor contents in lymphoid tissues

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 1-6, 1988, Pages 375-379

  Fassler R ^a   Dietrich, H ^b   Kromer G ^b   Schwarz, S ^b   Brezinschek, H P ^b   Wick, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TRANSCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHICKEN; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; OBESITY;

ANIMAL; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; TRANSCORTIN;

EID: 0023785028     PISSN: 00224731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-4731(88)90126-4     Document Type: Article

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