Acute exposure to the abused inhalant, isobutyl nitrite, reduced T cell responsiveness and spleen cellularity

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 151-158

  Guo, Grace L ^a   Rose, Denise ^a   Flick, James T ^a   Barnett, John B ^b   Soderberg, Lee S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Immunosuppression; Kaposi's sarcoma; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ISOBUTYL NITRITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INHALATION; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD28; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRITES; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033947104     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(00)00211-3     Document Type: Article

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