Age, gender and litter-related variation in T-lymphocyte cytokine production in young pigs

Immunology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 495-505

  De Groot, Johanna ^a   Kruijt, Leo ^a   Scholten, Jan Willem ^a   Boersma, Wim J A ^a   Buist, Willem G ^b   Engel, Bas ^b   Van Reenen, Cornelis G ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^c ASG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Health; Immune; Swine; Th1 Th2

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; BETA ACTIN; CYCLOPHILIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; IONOMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POKEWEED MITOGEN;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 22744434397     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2005.02184.x     Document Type: Article

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