Melatonin can produce immunoenhancement in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) without prior immunosuppression

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 122-126

  Moore, C B ^a   Siopes, T D ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; MELATONIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ P; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CELL SUSPENSION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; COTURNIX; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; COTURNIX; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MELATONIN;

EID: 0037210821     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00516-6     Document Type: Article

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