β-Carotene supplementation enhances lymphocyte proliferation with mitogens in human peripheral blood lymphocytes

Nutrition Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-218

  Moriguchi, Satoru ^a   Okishima, Naoko ^a   Sumida, Satoshi ^b   Okamura, Koji ^c   Tatsuya, Doi ^c   Kishino, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 2 (IL2); Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL); Proliferation; T cell subsets; carotene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BETA CAROTENE; CONCANAVALIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2; MITOGENIC AGENT; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MITOGENESIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029670923     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0271-5317(96)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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