Dysregulation of T-cell development in adrenal glucocorticoid-deprived rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1067-1074

  Stojić Vukanić, Zorica ^a   Rauški, Aleksandra ^b   Kosec, Duško ^b   Radojević, Katarina ^b   Pilipović, Ivan ^b   Leposavić, Gordana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Virology Vaccines and Sera Torlak   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Thymic hypercellularity; Thymocyte apoptosis; Thymocyte development

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349128618     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0902-RM-63     Document Type: Article

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