Effect of melatonin and pineal grafting on thymocyte apoptosis in aging mice

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-19

  Provinciali, Mauro ^a   Di Stefano, Giuseppina ^a   Bulian, Daniele ^a   Tibaldi, Alberto ^a   Fabris, Nicola ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Melatonin; Mice; Neuroimmunomodulation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MELATONIN; ZINC;

ADRENAL GLAND; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TISSUE GRAFT;

EID: 0030577036     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(96)01746-0     Document Type: Article

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