Cytokine gene expression during ontogeny in murine thymus on activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-37

  Lai, Zhi Wei ^a,b   Hundeiker, Claudia ^a   Gleichmann, Ernst ^a   Esser, Charlotte ^a,c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Med Inst of Environmental Hygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS;

EID: 0030857479     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.52.1.30     Document Type: Article

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