Vitamin E enhances T cell differentiation through increased epithelial cell function in rat thymus

Nutrition Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 873-883

  Moriguchi, Satoru ^a   Itoh, Tsunetoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; ICAM 1; T cell subsets; Thymic epithelial cells (TEC); Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0030892094     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(97)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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