Tryptophan modulates cell viability, phagocytosis and oxidative metabolism in old ringdoves

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-62

  Paredes, Sergio D ^a   Terrón, María Pilar ^a   Marchena, Ana María ^a   Barriga, Carmen ^a   Pariente, José A ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b   Rodríguez, Ana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; MELATONIN; SEROTONIN; SUPEROXIDE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOVE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; MELATONIN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEROTONIN; SUPEROXIDES; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMALIA; STREPTOPELIA RISORIA;

EID: 34250630602     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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