Age dependency of the composition of immunocompetent cells and the expression of adhesion molecules in rat laryngeal mucosa

Laryngoscope

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 733-738

  Jecker, Peter ^a,b   Ptok, Martin ^a   Pabst, Reinhard ^a   Westermann, Jürgen ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GRANULOCYTE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFECTION RISK; LARYNGITIS; LARYNX MUCOSA; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; E-SELECTIN; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LARYNX; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 0029934679     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199606000-00013     Document Type: Article

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