Metallothioneins (I + II) and thyroid-thymus axis efficiency in old mice: Role of corticosterone and zinc supply

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 675-694

  Mocchegiani, Eugenio ^a   Giacconi, Robertina ^a   Cipriano, Catia ^a   Gasparini, Nazzarena ^a   Orlando, Fiorenza ^a   Stecconi, Rosalia ^a   Muzzioli, Mario ^a   Isani, Gloria ^b   Carpenè, Emilio ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Biological clock; Corticosterone; Inflammation; Metallothioneins; MTs transgenic mice; PTU; Stress; Survival; Thymus grafts; Thyroid thymus axis; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; ZINC;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS; THYMUS GRAFT; THYROID GLAND;

AGING; ANIMALS; COPPER; CORTICOSTERONE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID GLAND; ZINC;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037204527     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(01)00414-6     Document Type: Article

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