Effect of omentectomy on peritoneal defence mechanisms in rats

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 605-609

  Aǧalar, Fatih ^a,b   Sayek, Iskender ^a   Çakmakçi, Metin ^a   Hasçelik, Gülşen ^a   Abbasoǧlu, Osman ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Merkez Bankasi Evleri ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bactericidal activity; Chemotaxis; Macrophage; Omentum; Peritoneum; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASCITIC FLUID; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS, MACROPHAGE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; OMENTUM; PERITONITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030807538     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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