Glucocorticoid-induced thymocyte death in the murine thymus: The effect at later stages

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-78

  Ishii, Tadashi ^a   Nakamura, Masanori ^a   Yagi, Hideki ^a   Soga, Hiroyuki ^a   Kayaba, Shoichi ^a   Gotoh, Takahiro ^a   Satomi, Susumu ^a   Itoh, Tsunetoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0030940783     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.60.65     Document Type: Article

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