Analysis of the mode of action of a novel immunosuppressant FTY720 in mice

Immunopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-207

  Luo, Zhi Juan ^a   Tanaka, Toshiyuki ^a   Kimura, Fumihiko ^a   Miyasaka, Masayuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FTY720; Immunosuppressant; Lymphocyte recirculation; Mice; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

FINGOLIMOD; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPHINGOSINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032980920     PISSN: 01623109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0162-3109(99)00004-1     Document Type: Article

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