Endogenous glucocorticoids play a positive regulatory role in the anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin in vivo antibody response

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3813-3819

  Fleshner, M ^a   Deak, T ^a   Nguyen, K T ^a   Watkins, L R ^a   Maier, S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRINKING WATER; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; OXPRENOATE POTASSIUM; RU 40555; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0035869598     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.6.3813     Document Type: Article

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