Thyroid status can influence brain mast cell population

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1163, Issue , 2009, Pages 369-371

  Baccari, Gabriella Chieffi ^a   Monteforte, Rossella ^a   Pinelli, Claudia ^a   Santillo, Alessandra ^a   Polese, Gianluca ^b   Rastogi, Rakesh K ^b,c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Campus M sant'Angelo ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain; Mast cells; Rana esculenta; TSH

Indexed keywords

PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FROG; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; MALE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; TELENCEPHALON; THYROID GLAND;

RANA ESCULENTA;

EID: 65449176097     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03656.x     Document Type: Article

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