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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Main Authors: V. Pesic, K. Radojevic, D. Kosec, B. Plecas-Solarovic, M. Perisic, I. Pilipovic, G. Leposavic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2007-11-01
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