Diminished Reproduction, Failure to Thrive, and Altered Immunologic Function in a Colony of T-Cell Receptor Transgenic Mice: Possible Role of Citrobacter rodentium

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-155

  Maggio Price, Lillian ^a   Nicholson, Katherine L ^a   Kline, Khristina M ^a   Birkebak, Ted ^a   Suzuki, Ivy ^a   Wilson, Deborah L ^b   Schauer, David ^c   Fink, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENROFLOXACIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CITROBACTER; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FAILURE TO THRIVE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0031898325     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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