Sexual dimorphism in phagocytic activity of wall lizard's splenic macrophages and its control by sex steroids

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 291-298

  Mondal, Soma ^a   Rai, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; LIZARD; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN EXAMINATION;

EID: 0032748107     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7370     Document Type: Article

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