Effects of neurointermediate pituitary lobectomy on humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in the rat

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 233-240

  Quintanar Stephano, Andrés ^a,d   Kovacs, Kalman ^b   Berczi, Istvan ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE AGUASCALIENTES   (Mexico)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d Autonomous University of Aguascalientes Centro de Ciencias Basicas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Humoral and cell mediated immune responses; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical axis, rat; Neurointermediate pituitary lobectomy

Indexed keywords

1 CHLORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; HEMAGGLUTININ; WATER;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOT PAD; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; LOBECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SHEEP; SPLEEN WEIGHT; THYMUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DINITROCHLOROBENZENE; DRINKING; EAR, EXTERNAL; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTININS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IRRITANTS; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 3142692606     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078441     Document Type: Article

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