Supernatants from leucocytes treated with melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) have a stimulatory effect on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) phagocytes in vitro

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 117-124

  Harris, James ^a   Bird, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Macrophage activating factor; MCH; Phagocytosis; Rainbow trout; MSH

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATING FACTOR; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RAINBOW TROUT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUPERNATANT;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTES; MELANINS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PHAGOCYTES; PITUITARY HORMONES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034739131     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(00)00205-1     Document Type: Article

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