Sex hormones have pervasive effects on thymic epithelial cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dumont Lagacé, Maude ^a,b   St Pierre, Charles ^a,b   Perreault, Claude ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84938878882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12895     Document Type: Article

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