Effects of housing on the thymic deficiency in dwarf mice and its reversal by growth hormone administration

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-202

  Dorshkind, Kenneth ^a   Welniak, Lisbeth ^b   Gault, Ruth A ^b   Hixon, Julie ^c   Montecino Rodriguez, Encarnacion ^a   Horseman, Nelson D ^d   Gertner, Joseph M ^e   Murphy, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e EMD SERONO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Stress; T cell progenitor; Thymopoiesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DWARFISM; FEMALE; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

EID: 0242302403     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6616(03)00181-5     Document Type: Article

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