Spleen autotransplantation provides restoration of functional splenic lymphoid compartments and improves the humoral immune response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 596-604

  Leemans, R ^c   Harms, G ^a   Rijkers, G T ^b   Timens, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autotransplantation; ELISA; Humoral immune response; Pneumococcal vaccination; Rat; Spleen

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLENECTOMY; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032806846     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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