The avian immune genome - A glass half-full or half-empty?

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Kaiser, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHEMOKINE; BETA CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; DEFENSIN; INTEGRIN; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; SELECTIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AVIAN GENETICS; BURSA FABRICII; CELL FUNCTION; EOSINOPHIL; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOKINES; GENOME; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547619796     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103183     Document Type: Review

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