Designing an artificial ecological mesocosm for the study of Cd and Pb impact on the immune system of experimental animals

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-10

  Baykov, Bayko ^a   Gugova, Milena ^a   Stoyanov, Mihail ^a   Neychev, Hristo ^b   Stefanova, Tzvetanka ^b   Nicolova, Nadja ^b  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Immunomodulation; Mesocosm

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEAD;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; LEAD; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029913978     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(96)03775-7     Document Type: Article

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