Tumoricidal activity of lymphokine-activated killer cells during acute protein restriction in the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-155

  Lochmiller, R L ^a   Sinclair, J A ^a   Rafferty, D P ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton rat; Immunity; LAK cells; Malnutrition; Natural killer cells; Nutritional ecology; Protein nutrition; Sigmodon hispidus

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CASEINS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIETARY PROTEINS; KILLER CELLS, LYMPHOKINE-ACTIVATED; MALE; SIGMODONTINAE; SPLEEN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032006423     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(97)00202-8     Document Type: Article

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