Cellular mechanism of estrogen-induced thymic involution in wall lizard: Caspase-dependent action

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 305, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 396-409

  Hareramadas, Batchu ^a   Rai, Umesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIZARD; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATROPHY; CASPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIZARDS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OVARIECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

HEMIDACTYLUS FLAVIVIRIDIS; PODARCIS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646510323     PISSN: 15488969     EISSN: 1552499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.260     Document Type: Article

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