Assessment of melatonin's ability to regulate cytokine production by macrophage and microglia cell types

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 84-93

  Shafer, Lisa L ^a,b   McNulty, John A ^a,b   Young, M Rita I ^a,c  

^a Neurobiology and Anatomy ^*  (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

IL 1 ; Macrophage; Melatonin; Microglia; Mouse; Rat; TNF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DRINKING WATER; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MELATONIN; NITRITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; MONOCYTES; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0034750563     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(01)00419-2     Document Type: Article

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