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    v. 44-, 2010- Full text delayed 15 months
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    v. 44-45, 2010-11.
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    Weinstein Y.
    J Immunol. 1977 Oct;119(4):1223-9.
    20alpha-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20alpha-SDH), an enzyme which reduces progesterone to 20alpha-dihydroprogesterone, was found to be associated with T lymphocytes. 20alphaSDH activity was present in spleen cells bearing theta antigen, spleen cells nonadherent to nylon wool (T lymphocyte-enriched population), and in thymocytes. Almost no enzymatic activity was found in bone marrow cells from normal mice and in spleen cells from neonatally thymectomized or athymic nude mice. T cell mitogens (PHA and Con A), but not the B cell mitogen LPS, induced high levels of enzymatic activity 48 hr after addition to spleen cell cultures. The level of 20alphaSDH activity in lymphocytes was age dependent. At the age of 4 weeks 20alphaSDH activity in thymocytes, spleen cells, and lymph node lymphocytes was 3 to 5 times higher than at 8 and 16 weeks. Progesterone (5.0 X 10(-7) M) was found to inhibit thymocyte proliferation after exposure to mitogens, but not 20alpha-dihydroprogesterone (10(-6) M). 20alpha SDH may protect the embryonic thymocytes against high concentrations of progesterone.
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