Chicken lines differ in production of interferon-like activity by peripheral white blood cells stimulated with phytohemagglutinin

Poultry Science

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1629-1636

  Bacon, L D ^a   Palmquist, D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inbred line; Interferon; Lymphocyte proliferation; Mitogen; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

INTERFERON; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RANDOMIZATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; INTERFERONS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 0036835689     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/81.11.1629     Document Type: Article

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