Melatonin treatment enhances the efficiency of mice immunization with Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus TC-83

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 767-770

  Negrette, Beatriz ^a   Bonilla, Ernesto ^a,b   Valero, Nereida ^a   Pons, Hector ^a   Tamayo, Jorge Garcia ^c   Chacín Bonilla, Leonor ^a   Medina Leendertz, Shirley ^b   Añez, Florencio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^b INBIOMED FUNDACITE ZULIA ^*  (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Encephalomyelitis; Equine; Melatonin; TC 83 virus

Indexed keywords

ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 10; MELATONIN; TC 83; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; IMMUNIZATION; MELATONIN; MICE; VIRAL VACCINES;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; RNA VIRUSES; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0034842972     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011645400123     Document Type: Article

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