Effect of gonadal steroids on proliferative responses and subset alterations in cultured chicken lymphocytes

Poultry Science

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1329-1338

  Landsman, T ^a   Leitner, G ^b   Robinzon, B ^a   Heller, E D ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gonadal steroid; Intracellular signaling; Lymphocyte proliferation; Lymphocyte subset; Mitogen

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CALCIMYCIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL 3-BENZOATE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; IONOPHORE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CALCIMYCIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IONOPHORES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

EID: 0035465207     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/80.9.1329     Document Type: Article

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