Thiol compounds inhibit mercury-induced immunological and immunopathological alterations in susceptible mice

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-75

  Hu, H ^a   Moller G ^a   Abedi Valugerdi, M ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anti nucleolar antibody; Autoimmunity; Mercury; Renal immune complex deposits; Thiol compounds

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CYSTEINE; DITHIOTHREITOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; SUCCIMER; UNITHIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031025842     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1997.d01-903.x     Document Type: Article

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