Effect of fatty acid-rich diets on thymocyte proliferation and thymus involution during growing

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 531-534

  Egami, M I ^a   Guimaraes, A R P ^b   Nascimento Curi, C M P O ^a   Curi, R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dietary fat; Growing; Immune function; Thymocyte proliferation; Thymus involution

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT INTAKE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYMOCYTE;

AGING; ANIMAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MITOTIC INDEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0027408866     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(93)90149-A     Document Type: Article

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