Immunological parameters: What do they mean?

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Calder, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MONOCYTE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 33947109923     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.3.773s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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