The cigarette tar component p-benzoquinone blocks T-lymphocyte activation by inhibiting interleukin-2 production, but not CD25, ICAM-1, or LFA-1 expression

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-36

  Geiselhart, Lisa A ^a,b   Christian, Todd ^b   Minnear, Fred ^b   Freed, Brian M ^b  

^a Dept of Microbiol Immunol and M ^*  (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; CD18 ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE;

ARTICLE; BLAST TRANSFORMATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG TOXICITY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0031104835     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.8071     Document Type: Article

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