Increased IL-4 production and attenuated proliferative and pro-inflammatory responses of splenocytes from wild-caught rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 374-382

  Lesher, Aaron ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Whitt, Parker ^b   Newton, Nolan ^b   Devalapalli, Aditya P ^a   Shieh, Karl ^a   Solow, Jonathan S ^a   Parker, William ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Environmental Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Hygiene hypothesis; IL 4; Inflammatory cytokines; Laboratory; Rat; Wild

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CONCANAVALIN A; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33745108475     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1711.2006.01440.x     Document Type: Article

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