Effect of short term cocaine administration on the immune system of young and old C57BL/6 female mice

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 755-769

  Colombo, Lucas L ^a,b   López, María C ^a   Chen, Guan Jie ^a   Watson, Ronald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344339150     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923979909007140     Document Type: Article

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