Long-term melatonin supplementation does not recover the impairment of natural killer cell activity and lymphocyte proliferation in aging mice

Life Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 857-864

  Provinciali, Mauro ^a   Di Stefano, Giuseppina ^a   Bulian, Daniele ^a   Stronati, Stefania ^a   Fabris, Nicola ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Lymphocyte proliferation; Melatonin; Mice; Natural killer cells; Neuroimmunomodulation

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030877282     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(97)00587-0     Document Type: Article

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