Gender-related early immune changes in mice exposed to airborne suspended matter

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-121

  Drela, Nadzieja ^a   Ześko, Izabela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Airborne suspended matter; Environmental pollution; Lymphocyte subsets; Surface markers expression; Thymocyte subsets

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THYMOCYTE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; AXILLA; CORTICOSTERONE; DUST; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEX FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TESTOSTERONE; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037236302     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/IPH-120018288     Document Type: Article

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