Thymocyte-synthesized glucocorticoids play a role in thymocyte homeostasis and are down-regulated by adrenocorticotropic hormone

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4163-4169

  Qiao, Shengjun ^a,b   Okret, Sam ^b   Jondal, Mikael ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYP11B1; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THYMOCYTE;

8-BROMO CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOMEOSTASIS; METYRAPONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 69249150559     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0195     Document Type: Article

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