Phospholipids and reactive nitrogen intermediates collaborate in expression of the T cell mitogenesis-inhibitory activity of immunosuppressive macrophages induced in mycobacterial infection

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-225

  Tomioka, H ^a   Kishimoto, T ^a   Maw, W W ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunosuppressive macrophages; Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex; NO; Phospholipids; Reactive nitrogen intermediates; T cell mitogenesis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SUPPRESSOR CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030069316     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1996.d01-614.x     Document Type: Article

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