From: The estrogen-injected female mouse: new insight into the etiology of PCOS
Steroid | Thymus Wt (mg) | Spleen Wt (mg) | Thymocytes (106) | Splenocyes (106) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Vehicle [5]a | 50.5 ± 3.2b | 40.6 ± 3.6 | 83.0 ± 6.1 | 33.2 ± 5.9 |
Progesterone [4] | 48.8 ± 3.0 | 37.4 ± 0.6 | 73.5 ± 18.1 | 33.5 ± 1.3 |
Testosterone [9] | 47.8 ± 2.6 | 46.0 ± 3.6 | 143.2 ± 25.5 | 89.2 ± 23.1 |
Cortisol [13] | 26.5 ± 3.4** | 27.9 ± 2.0* | 52.3 ± 9.2 | 19.2 ± 3.2 |
Estradiol-17β [8] | 18.5 ± 3.2*** | 14.6 ± 1.8*** | 33.6 ± 12.0* | 5.8 ± 1.1*** |