Modulation of age-related changes in immune functions of protein-deficient senescence-accelerated mice by dietary nucleoside-nucleotide mixture supplementation

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 795-804

  Ameho, Clement K ^a   Adjei, Andrew A ^a   Yamauchi, Keiko ^a   Harrison, Eric K ^a   Kulkarni, Anil D ^b   Sato, Seiji ^c   Yamamoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Pharmaceutical Factory Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immune function; Nucleoside nucleotide mixture; SAMP8

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NUCLEOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SENESCENCE; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CASEINS; CELL DIVISION; CONCANAVALIN A; GLYCOSIDES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030979919     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN19970076     Document Type: Article

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