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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Lei Liu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2889 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Selvaraj Vimal V Bunick David D Finnigan-Bunick Carrol C Johnson Rodney W RW Wang Huixia H Liu Lei L Cooke Paul S PS
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 20050609 1
Estrogen regulates thymic development and involution and modulates immune function. Despite its critical role in thymus, as well as in autoimmune disorders, the mechanism by which estrogen affects the thymus is not well understood. We previously reported that the estrogenic soy isoflavone genistein, as well as 17beta-estradiol (E2), could induce thymic involution, but genistein effects were only partially mediated through estrogen receptors. To provide insights into mechanisms of estrogenic effe ...[more]