Partial blockade of T-cell differentiation during ontogeny and marked alterations of the thymic microenvironment in transgenic mice with impaired glucocorticoid receptor function

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-167

  Sacedón, Rosa ^a   Vicente, Angeles ^a   Varas, Alberto ^a   Morale, Maria C ^c   Barden, Nicholas ^b   Marchetti, Bianca ^c   Zapata, Agustín G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Differentiation; Glucocorticoid receptor antisense RNA; Glucocorticoids; Ontogeny; Stromal cells; T cells; Thymus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, ANTISENSE; SPLEEN; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032979994     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(99)00091-0     Document Type: Article

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