Corticosterone 21-acetate in vivo induces acute stress in chicken thymus: Cell proliferation, apoptosis and cytokine responses

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 693-699

  Franchini, A ^a   Marchesini, E ^a   Ottaviani, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Corticosterone 21 acetate; Cytokines; Gallus domesticus; Mitosis; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE 21 ACETATE; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6 ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERDIGITATING CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; STRESS; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; MALE; STRESS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 3042740792     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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