Perinatal photoperiod organizes adult immune responses in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Weil, Zachary M ^a   Pyter, Leah M ^a   Martin II, Lynn B ^a   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed type hypersensitivity; Melatonin; Photoperiodism; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; DINITROFLUOROBENZENE; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SPLEEN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 33744797079     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00869.2005     Document Type: Article

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