Age-related effects of ectopic pituitary transplants on the activation of ames dwarf mouse lymphocytes in vitro (43956)

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-93

  Esquifino, Ana I ^a   Szary, Agnieszka ^b   Brown Borg, Holly M ^b   Bartke, Andrzej ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPOPHYSIS TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DWARFISM; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

ANIMALIA; MICA;

EID: 0030030612     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-211-43956     Document Type: Article

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