Peripubertal orchidectomy transitorily affects age-associated thymic involution in rats
The role of gonadal hormones in induction and, particularly, maintenance/progression of rat thymic involution, which normally starts around puberty, was reassessed by examining the effects of peripubertal orchidectomy on thymic weight and morphometric parameters at different times up to the age of 1...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2007-11-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007001100009 |