Expression of nerve growth factor is upregulated in the rat thymic epithelial cells during thymus regeneration following acute thymic involution

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 86-95

  Lee, Hee Woo ^a   Kim, Sung Min ^a   Shim, Na Ri ^a   Bae, Soo Kyung ^a   Jung, Il Gun ^a   Kwak, Jong Young ^b   Kim, Bong Seon ^a   Kim, Jae Bong ^a   Moon, Jeon Ok ^c   Chung, Joo Seop ^a   Yoon, Sik ^a  

^a Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dong A University   (South Korea)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Neuroimmune interaction; Neurotrophin; Thymic epithelial cell lines; Thymic stromal cells; Thymocytes

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; THYMUS GLAND; UP-REGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 33947580366     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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