The role of estrogen receptors and androgen receptors in sex steroid regulation of B lymphopoiesis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-34

  Smithson, Glennda ^a   Couse, John F ^b   Lubahn, Dennis B ^c   Korach, Kenneth S ^b   Kincade, Paul W ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; ESTROGEN BINDING; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE TARGETING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; STEADY STATE; STROMA CELL; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION;

ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0031830892     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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