Melatonin influences interleukin-12 and nitric oxide production by primary cultures of rheumatoid synovial macrophages and THP-1 cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 876, Issue , 1999, Pages 246-254

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^a   Villaggio, Barbara ^a   Candido, Federica ^a   Valenti, Sandra ^a   Giusti, Massimo ^a   Felli, Lamberto ^a   Sulli, Alberto ^a   Accardo, Silvano ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MELATONIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; CELL CULTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0032781606     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07645.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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