Mercury-induced autoimmunity in mice

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2002, Pages 877-881

  Nielsen, Jesper B ^a   Hultman, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibodies; Autoimmunity; H 2 genes; Mercury; Mice; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; DRINKING WATER; FIBRILLARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MERCURY CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HELPER CELL; HEREDITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036805778     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110s5877     Document Type: Article

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