Fetal alcohol exposure augments the blunting of tumor necrosis factor production in vitro resulting from in vivo priming with lipopolysaccharide in young adult male but not female rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1542-1546

  Chiappelli, Francesco ^a,b   Kung, Michelle A ^a,b   Tio, Delia L ^a,b   Tritt, Susan H ^a   Yirmiya, Raz ^c   Taylor, Anna N ^a,b,d  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal Alcohol Exposure; Lipopolysaccharide (LPS); Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs); Primed PBMCs; Tumor Necrosis Factor

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030698760     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997.tb04487.x     Document Type: Article

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