In vitro effect of sex steroids on cytotoxic activity of splenic macrophages in wall lizard (Hemidactylus flaviviridis)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-271

  Mondal, Soma ^a   Rai, Umesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

IL 1; Lizard; Macrophage; Nitric oxide; Sex steroid

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1; NITRITE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; LIZARD; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN;

EID: 0036474313     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2001.7744     Document Type: Article

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