Tuftsin, A Natural Activator of Phagocyte Cells: An Overview

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 419, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 1-11

  NAJJAR, VICTOR A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE B; CARRIER PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEUCOKININASE; PROTEINASE; TUFTSIN; TUFTSIN ENDOCARBOXYPEPTIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEW DRUG; TETRAPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PHAGOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; SPLEEN; ANTIBODY PRODUCING CELL; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GRANULOCYTES; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, FC; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHAGOCYTES; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUFTSIN;

EID: 0020973945     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1983.tb37086.x     Document Type: Article

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