Reassessing the role of growth hormone and sex steroids in thymic involution

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-123

  Min, Hyeyoung ^b   Montecino Rodriguez, Encarnacion ^b   Dorshkind, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Involution; Mice; Sex steroids; Thymopoiesis; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INVOLUTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 29444460806     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2005.08.015     Document Type: Article

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