Edogenous glucocorticoids cause thymus atrophy but are protective during acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 495-503

  Roggero, Eduardo ^c   Pérez, Ana R ^c   Tamae Kakazu, Maximiliano ^c   Piazzon, Isabel ^a   Nepomnaschy, Irene ^a   Basedovsky, Hugo O ^b   Bottasso, Oscar A ^c   del Rey, Adriana ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKLING; THYMUS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CORTICOSTERONE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIFEPRISTONE; MYOCARDIUM; PARASITEMIA; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; THYMUS GLAND; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33747881176     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06642     Document Type: Article

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