Loss of Parafollicular Cells during Gravitational Changes (Microgravity, Hypergravity) and the Secret Effect of Pleiotrophin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Albi, Elisabetta ^a   Curcio, Francesco ^b   Spelat, Renza ^b   Lazzarini, Andrea ^a,b   Lazzarini, Remo ^b   Cataldi, Samuela ^b   Loreti, Elisabetta ^c   Ferri, Ivana ^c   Ambesi Impiombato, Francesco Saverio ^b  

^a Laboratory of Nuclear Lipid BioPathology   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; PLEIOTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; GRAVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; CYTOKINES; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; THYROID GLAND; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84871260829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048518     Document Type: Article

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