Androgens regulate bone marrow B lymphopoiesis in male mice by targeting osteoblast-lineage cells

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1228-1236

  Wilhelmson, Anna S ^a   Stubelius, Alexandra ^b   Börjesson, Anna E ^b   Wu, Jianyao ^b   Stern, Anna ^b   Malin, Stephen ^c   Mårtensson, Inga Lill ^b   Ohlsson, Claes ^b   Carlsten, Hans ^b   Tivesten, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE I TRIMERIC CROSS-LINKED PEPTIDE; OSTEOCALCIN; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA; ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE MARROW; CELL LINEAGE; COLLAGEN TYPE I; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCALCIN; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPLEEN;

EID: 84926444092     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1822     Document Type: Article

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