Leptin receptor is expressed in thymus medulla and leptin protects against thymic remodeling during endotoxemia-induced thymus involution

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-85

  Gruver, Amanda L ^a   Ventevogel, Melissa S ^a   Sempowski, Gregory D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; OBRA PROTEIN; OBRB PROTEIN; OBRC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTOXEMIA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEADY STATE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATROPHY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTOXEMIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-7; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70349766380     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-09-0179     Document Type: Article

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