Melatonin restores and enhances the human type B tonsillar lymphocyte subset in recurrent acute tonsillitis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 131-134

  Lopez Gonzalez, Miguel A ^a   Guerrero, Juan M ^b   Sanchez, Berta ^a   Delgado, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Immune system; Melatonin; Pineal gland; Recurrent acute tonsillitis; Tonsils

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; TONSILLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MELATONIN; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RECURRENCE; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 17144451561     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00292-4     Document Type: Article

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