Cellular and nerve fibre catecholaminergic thymic network: Steroid hormone dependent activity

Physiological Research

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Leposavic G ^a,b   Pilipovic I ^a   Perisic M ^a  

^a Immunology Research Center Belgrade   (Yugoslavia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Catecholamines; Glucocorticoids; Sexual dimorphism; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; SEX HORMONE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNERVATION; MALE; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84856594269     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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