Article
Altered thyrotropic and somatotropic responses to environmental challenges in congenitally athymic mice.
Brain, behavior, and immunity - 1 Jun 1995
Goya R G, Sosa Y E, Cónsole G M, Dardenne M
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal thymectomy or congenital absence of the thymus induces morphologic alterations in pituitary somatotrophs as well as in thyroid epithelium. It was therefore of interest to assess somatotropic and thyrotropic cell morphology and the corresponding serum hormone levels in athymic nude mice under basal and stressful conditions, taking as a reference their haired counterparts. Normal (+/+), heterozygous nude...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Cold Temperature
- Genotype
- Growth Hormone
- Immobilization
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Neuroimmunomodulation
- Pituitary Gland, Anterior
- Stress, Physiological