Catecholaminergic signalling through thymic nerve fibres, thymocytes and stromal cells is dependent on both circulating and locally synthesized glucocorticoids

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1211-1223

  Pilipovic I ^a   Radojevic K ^a   Perisic M ^a   Kosec, D ^a   Nacka Aleksic M ^b   Djikic J ^b   Leposavic G ^b  

^a Immunology Research Center Belgrade   (Yugoslavia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

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EID: 84868213619     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.064899     Document Type: Article

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