Gonadal hormone dependent developmental plasticity of catecholamine:β2-adrenoceptor signaling complex in male rat thymus: Putative implications for thymopoiesis

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 20-35

  Pilipović, Ivan ^a   Radojević, Katarina ^a   Kosec, Duško ^a   Perišić Nanut, Milica ^a   Stojić Vukanić, Zorica ^b   Arsenović Ranin, Nevena ^b   Leposavić, Gordana ^b  

^a Institute of Virology Vaccines and Sera Torlak   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

2 Adrenoceptors; Catecholamine metabolizing enzymes; Orchidectomy; Sympathetic innervation; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CD68 ANTIGEN; GLUTAMYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; PROPRANOLOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA2 AR GENE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONS OF THE HEMIC, LYMPHATIC AND RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS;

Β(2)-ADRENOCEPTORS; CATECHOLAMINE METABOLIZING ENZYMES; ORCHIDECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; THYMUS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GLUTAMYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; ORCHIECTOMY; PLANT LECTINS; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTICULAR HORMONES; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84888386429     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: 18728421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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