Effect of Zinc and Melatonin Supplementation on Cellular Immunity in Rats with Toxoplasmosis

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 237-245

  Baltaci, Abdülkerim Kasim ^a   Bediz, Cem Seref ^b   Mogulkoc, Rasim ^a   Kurtoglu, Erdal ^a   Pekel, Aysel ^c  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cellular immunity; Melatonin; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Zinc supplementation

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MELATONIN; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HORMONAL THERAPY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MELATONIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 1642439258     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:96:1-3:237     Document Type: Article

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