The different responses of the female mouse thymus to estrogen after treatment of neonatal, prepubertal, and adult animals

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 275-290

  Forsberg, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Diethylstilbestrol; Estrogen; LH releasing hormone; Mouse; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOVULATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORMONE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; HYPERTROPHY; LEUKOCYTES; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030417677     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000147890     Document Type: Article

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