Dextran sulfate sodium-induced colitis generates a transient thymic involution - Impact on thymocyte subsets

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 421-429

  Fritsch Fredin, M ^b,c   Elgbratt, K ^c   Svensson, D ^b   Jansson, L ^b   Melgar, S ^b   Hultgren Hornquist E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DEXTRAN SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; INFLAMMATION; INVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; DEXTRAN SULFATE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOPENIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 34247401804     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2007.01923.x     Document Type: Article

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