Morphometric assessment of the impact of serum thymulin immunoneutralization on pituitary cell populations in peripubertal mice

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-30

  Camihort, Gisela ^a   Luna, Georgina ^a   Vesenbeckh, Silvan ^b   Ferese, Celia ^a   Dardenne, Mireille ^c   Goya, Rodolfo ^a   Cónsole, Gloria ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Morphometry; Mouse; Pituitary; Thymulin; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYMULIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CORTICOTROPHS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPHS; GROWTH HORMONE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; LACTOTROPHS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOMATOTROPHS; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING; THYROTROPHS; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33845905185     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096948     Document Type: Article

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