Synergistic effect between ouabain and glucocorticoids for the induction of thymic atrophy

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-169

  Rodrigues Mascarenhas, Sandra ^a   Santos, Neusa Fernandes Dos ^a,b   Rumjanek, Vivian M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Cell death; Glucocorticoid; Ouabain; Thymocytes

Indexed keywords

3,3 DIHEXYLOXACARBOCYANINE IODIDE; ANNEXIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; OUABAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; DRUG POTENTIATION; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; STRESS; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROCORTISONE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGAN SIZE; OUABAIN; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; STROPHANTHUS GRATUS;

EID: 33745452451     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10540-006-9012-1     Document Type: Article

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