Sex steroid ablation enhances immune reconstitution following cytotoxic antineoplastic therapy in young mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6014-6024

  Goldberg, Gabrielle L ^a   Dudakov, Jarrod A ^a,b   Reiseger, Jessica J ^a   Seach, Natalie ^a   Ueno, Tomoo ^a   Vlahos, Katerina ^a   Hammett, Maree V ^a   Young, Lauren F ^a   Heng, Tracy S P ^a   Boyd, Richard L ^a   Chidgey, Ann P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; SEX HORMONE; THYMOPOIETIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ABLATION THERAPY; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHAMOVNICHESKIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX HORMONE ABLATION; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; STROMA; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL SEPARATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORCHIECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 77953373181     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802445     Document Type: Article

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