Glucocorticoid-catecholamine interplay within the composite thymopoietic regulatory network

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1261, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-41

  Pilipović, Ivan ^a   Radojević, Katarina ^a   Perišić, Milica ^a   Leposavić, Gordana ^b  

^a Immunology Research Center Belgrade   (Yugoslavia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Glucocorticoids; Rat thymus; T cell development; adrenergic receptors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CD69 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL TYPE; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84864081722     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06623.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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