Immunomodulatory effects of maternal atrazine exposure on male Balb/c mice

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-77

  Rowe, Alexander M ^a   Brundage, Kathleen M ^a   Schafer, Rosana ^a   Barnett, John B ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; B cell response; Developmental; Herbicide; Immunotoxicity; Mouse; T cell response

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPOTENTIATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATRAZINE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LACTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX FACTORS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33744983318     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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