Calcium channel antagonist (nifedipine) attenuates Plasmodium berghei-specific T cell immune responses in Balb/C mice

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Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 911-920

  Moshal, Karni S ^a   Adhikari, Jawahar S ^b   Bist, Kamana ^c   Nair, Unnikrishnan ^a   Dwarakanath, B S ^b   Katyal, Anju ^a   Chandra, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^c NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Drug resistance; Intracellular calcium; Splenomegaly; T cell physiology

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NIFEDIPINE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SPLENOMEGALY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34547897650     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2007.apm_659.x     Document Type: Article

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