Partial prevention of hepatic lipid alterations in nude mice by neonatal thymulin gene therapy

Lipids

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 753-757

  García De Bravo, Margarita M ^a   Polo, Mónica P ^a   Reggiani, Paula C ^a   Rimoldi, Omar J ^a   Dardenne, Mireille ^b   Goya, Rodolfo G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEONATAL MONITORING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC;

CONGENITAL ATHYMIAS; GENE THERAPY; HEPATIC LIPIDS; IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; GLUCOSE; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; THYMULIN; ZINC;

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; THYMUS APLASIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; GENE THERAPY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MICE; MICE, NUDE; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33750484671     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-006-5027-4     Document Type: Article

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