Blood clearance of (1 → 3) -β-D-glucan in MRL lpr/lpr mice

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-57

  Miura, Noriko N ^a   Ohno, Naohito ^a   Aketagawa, Jun ^b   Tamura, Hiroshi ^b   Tanaka, Shigenori ^b   Yadomae, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

(1 3) D glucan; Clearance rate; Factor G; Limulus test; Reticuloendothelial system

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD; CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCANS; FEMALE; GLUCANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0030026523     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-8244(95)00083-6     Document Type: Article

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