Assessment of peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferation by [2-3H]adenine uptake in the woodchuck model

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 223-227

  Kreuzfelder, E ^a   Menne, S ^a   Ferencik, S ^a   Roggendorf, M ^a   Grosse Wilde, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; EDETIC ACID; MITOGENIC AGENT; THYMIDINE; URIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOODCHUCK;

EID: 0029997455     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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