Glucocorticoids delay age-associated thymic involution through directly affecting the thymocytes

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2392-2401

  Pazirandeh, Ahmad ^a,b   Jondal, Mikael ^b   Okret, Sam ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SPECIFIC PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE P56(LCK); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 2142813867     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1660     Document Type: Article

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