In vitro effect of hormones on the hormone content of rat peritoneal and thymic cells. Is there an endocrine network inside the immune system?

Inflammation Research

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 447-451

  Csaba, G ^a   Pallinger E ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ACTH; EGF; Endocrine system; Endorphin; Gonadotropin; Hormonal network; Mast cells; Oxytocin; T3; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ENDORPHIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE ANTIBODY; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM CELL; THYMUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ENDORPHINS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GONADOTROPINS; GRANULOCYTES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSULIN; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MAST CELLS; MONOCYTES; OXYTOCIN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMUS GLAND; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 38549123498     PISSN: 10233830     EISSN: 1420908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00011-007-7021-6     Document Type: Article

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