Neonatal androgenization affects the efficiency of β-adrenoceptor-mediated modulation of thymopoiesis

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 239, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 68-79

  Radojević, Katarina ^a   Kosec, Duško ^a   Perišić, Milica ^a   Pilipović, Ivan ^a   Vidić Danković, Biljana ^a   Leposavić, Gordana ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Neonatal androgenization; Noradrenaline; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); ANDROGEN; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; PROGESTERONE; PROPRANOLOL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NEONATAL ANDROGENIZATION; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYMIC CORTEX; THYMIC CORTICOMEDULLA; THYMIC MEDULLA; THYMIC WEIGHT; THYMOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; THYMUS; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 80054889026     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: 18728421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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