The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis of athymic swiss nude mice the implications of T lymphocytes in the ACTH release from immune cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 840, Issue , 1998, Pages 480-490

  Gaillard, R C ^a   Daneva, T ^a   Hadid, R ^a   Muller, K ^a   Spinedi, E ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032077535     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09586.x     Document Type: Article

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