Growth hormone stimulates the selective trafficking of thymic CD4+CD8- emigrants to peripheral lymphoid organs

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 299-306

  Smaniotto, Salete ^a,b   Ribeiro Carvalho, Marilza Moura ^a   Dardenne, Mireille ^c   Savino, Wilson ^a,c   De Mello Coelho, Valéria ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Integrins; L selectin; Peripheral lymphoid organs; Thymus derived T cell homing

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GROWTH HORMONE; PADGEM PROTEIN; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; INTEGRIN ALPHA4BETA1; L-SELECTIN; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 4444241076     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079410     Document Type: Article

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