Social rearing conditions before weaning influence numbers and proportions of blood immune cells in laboratory rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-52

  Stefanski, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood cellular immunity; CD4 T cells; Granulocytes; Laboratory rats; Offspring; Social environment; Social rearing; T cell proliferation

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CONCANAVALIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WEANING;

EID: 0034930069     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.1027     Document Type: Article

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