Experimental hepatitis in neonatally thymectomized mice: Transfer of disease and the role of T cells

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 302-309

  Kamiyasu, Masaya ^a   Watanabe, Yasuyuki ^a   Miura, Toshio ^a   Masuda, Kazunari ^a   Nakanishi, Toshio ^a   Kajiyama, Goro ^a   Gershwin, M Eric ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; NYLON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMECTOMY; WOOL;

EID: 0031172653     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1996.4346     Document Type: Article

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