Exogenous insulin-like growth factor 1 enhances thymopoiesis predominantly through thymic epithelial cell expansion
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- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Hematology in Blood
- Vol. 112 (7) , 2836-2846
- https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2008-04-149435
Abstract
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) enhances thymopoiesis but given the broad distribution of IGF-1 receptors (IGF-1Rs), its mechanism of action hasKeywords
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