Reassessing the role of growth hormone and sex steroids in thymic involution
The concomitant decline in growth hormone (GH) and increase in sex steroid production with age is thought to be responsible for thymic involution. If changes in the production of these hormones trigger or sustain thymic involution, that process should be accelerated in little mice, which have a gene...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.). - 1999. - 118(2006), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 117-23 |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Gonadal Steroid Hormones Insulin-Like Growth Factor I 67763-96-6 Growth Hormone 9002-72-6 |