Prenatal androgen exposure modulates cellular and humoral immune function of black-headed gull chicks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1575, 2005, Pages 1971-1977

  Müller, Wendt ^a,c   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Kasprzik, Alice ^a   Dijkstra, Cor ^a   Alatalo, Rauno V ^b   Siitari, Heli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibody; Humoral immunity; Lipopolysaccharides; Phytohemagglutinin; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; SESAME SEED OIL; TESTOSTERONE;

IMMUNITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; HATCHING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS; SESAMUM INDICUM;

EID: 26244434882     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3178     Document Type: Article

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