Glucocorticoid production and regulation in thymus: Of mice and birds

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3977-3979

  Gomez Sanchez, Celso E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

BIRD; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MICE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 69249101745     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0615     Document Type: Short Survey

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