Acute alcohol intoxication suppresses natural killer cell activity and promotes tumor metastasis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 457-460

  Ben Eliyahu, Shamgar ^a   Page, Gayle G ^b   Yirmiya, Raz ^c   Taylor, Anna N ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029894131     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0496-457     Document Type: Article

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