Age-associated remodeling of neural and nonneural thymic catecholaminergic network affects thymopoietic productivity

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 290-308

  Leposavić, Gordana ^a,b   Pilipović, Ivan ^a   Periić, Milica ^a  

^a Institute of Virology   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Adrenoceptors; Ageing; Catecholamines; Thymopoiesis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; COCAINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NADOLOL; NORADRENALIN; PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL; PYRETHROID; SEX HORMONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; URAPIDIL;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOREGULATION; BIOASSAY; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOMETRY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTAMINE RELEASE; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOID CELL; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; NEURONS; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 80053343336     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329499     Document Type: Article

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