Reversal of age-associated decline in immune responsiveness by dietary glutathione supplementation in mice

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 107-117

  Furukawa, Tadayasu ^a   Meydani, Simin Nikbin ^a   Blumberg, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gluathione; Immune response

Indexed keywords

1 FLUORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; CONCANAVALIN A; GLUTATHIONE; MALEIMIDE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIET; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL;

AGING; ANIMAL; DIET; DNA REPLICATION; GLUTATHIONE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0023215770     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(87)90071-6     Document Type: Article

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