Role of ovarian hormones in age-associated thymic involution revisited

Immunobiology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-293

  Perišić, Milica ^a   Arsenović Ranin, Nevena ^b   Pilipović, Ivan ^a   Kosec, Duško ^a   Pešić, Vesna ^b   Radojević, Katarina ^a   Leposavić, Gordana ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Ovarian hormones; Recent thymic emigrants; T regulatory cells; Thymic involution; Thymopoiesis

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; INVOLUTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; WEIGHT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 77649234731     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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