The alteration of immune reactions in inbred BALB/c mice following low-level sarin inhalation exposure

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 509-515

  Kassa, Jiří ^a   Kroçová, Zuzana ^a   Ševelová, Lucie ^a   Sheshko, Valerie ^a   Kasalová, Irena ^a   Neubauerová, Věra ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF TOXICOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGENIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; SARIN;

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; IMMUNITY; INBRED STRAIN; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INHALATION EXPOSURE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGENS; NITRIC OXIDE; SARIN; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3142711050     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370490442476     Document Type: Article

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