Effects of lycopene, a carotenoid, on intrathymic T cell differentiation and peripheral CD4/CD8 ratio in a high mammary tumor strain of SHN retired mice

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 195-198

  Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Iijima, Koji ^b   Mitamura, Tadasu ^a   Toriizuka, Kazuo ^b   Cyong, Jong Chol ^b   Nagasawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Lycopene; Mammary tumor; Mice; T cell

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; LYCOPENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTENOIDS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0029937682     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-199602000-00008     Document Type: Article

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