Ethanol decreases host resistance to pulmonary metastases in a mouse model: Role of natural killer cells and the ethanol-induced stress response

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 886-892

  Wu, Wen Jun ^a   Pruett, Stephen B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; STRESS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RATS; SPLEEN; STRESS;

EID: 0032867109     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990909)82:6<886::AID-IJC19>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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