Splenic marginal metallophilic macrophages and marginal zone macrophages are the major interferon-α/β producers in mice upon intravenous challenge with herpes simplex virus

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 391-394

  Eloranta, M L ^a,b   Alm, G V ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERFERON-BETA; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032969658     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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