Expression of the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis during Balb/c thymus ontogeny and effects of growth hormone upon ex vivo T cell differentiation

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 137-147

  Kermani, Hamid ^a   Goffinet, Lindsay ^a   Mottet, Marie ^a   Bodart, Gwenaelle ^a   Morrhaye, Gabriel ^a   Dardenne, Olivier ^a   Renard, Chantal ^a   Overbergh, Lut ^b   Baron, Frédéric ^a   Beguin, Yves ^a   Geenen, Vincent ^a   Martens, Henri J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fetal thymic organ cultures; Growth hormone receptor antagonist; Insulin like growth factors; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; PEGVISOMANT; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE ACTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84855910268     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328844     Document Type: Article

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