The opioid antagonist naloxone induces a shift from Type 2 to Type 1 cytokine pattern in BALB/cJ mice

Blood

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2031-2036

  Sacerdote, Paola ^a,b   Manfredi, Barbara ^a   Gaspani, Leda ^a   Panerai, Alberto E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Dept Pharmacology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 2; LYMPHOTOXIN; NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0034654402     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.6.2031     Document Type: Article

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