Prenatal endocrine activation alters postnatal cellular immunity in infant monkeys

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-234

  Coe, Christopher L ^a   Lubach, Gabriele R ^a   Karaszewski, Joseph W ^a   Ershler, William B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOASSAY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0030237076     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brbi.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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