Novel Microtechnique for Assessment of Postnatal Maturation of the Phagocytic Function of Neutrophils and Monocytes

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1096-1102

  Muniz Junqueira, Maria Imaculada ^a   Figueira Peçanha, Lídia Maria ^a   Da Silva Filho, Valeriano Luiz ^a   De Almeida Cardoso, Maria Cecília ^a   Tosta, Carlos Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD CELLS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0345257036     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.6.1096-1102.2003     Document Type: Article

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