Oral exposure to inorganic mercury alters T lymphocyte phenotypes and cytokine expression in BALB/c mice

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 613-620

  Kim, Sang Hyun ^a,b   Johnson, Victor J ^a,c   Sharma, Raghubir P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Immunotoxicity; Inflammatory cytokines; Major histocompatibility complex II; Mercury; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DRINKING WATER; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MERCURY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH HAZARD; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; KIDNEY MASS; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINES; DRINKING; EATING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MERCURY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; RNA; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344082037     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-003-0497-0     Document Type: Article

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