Effects of dioxins on the quantitative levels of immune components in infants

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 131-136

  Kaneko, Hideo ^a   Matsui, Eiko ^a   Shinoda, Shinnji ^a   Kawamoto, Norio ^a   Nakamura, Yosikazu ^b   Uehara, Ritei ^b   Matsuura, Nobuo ^c   Morita, Masatoshi ^d   Tada, Hiroshi ^e   Kondo, Naomi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bottle feeding; breast feeding; dioxins; IgE; lymphocytes subsets

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; DIOXIN; HUMORAL ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; JAPAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DIOXINS; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFANT; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MILK, HUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646345092     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0748233706th249oa     Document Type: Article

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