Immunomodulatory effects of organochlorine mixtures upon in vitro exposure of peripheral blood leukocytes differ between free-ranging and captive southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris)

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 269-277

  Levin, Milton ^a   Leibrecht, Heather ^a   Mori, Chiharu ^a   Jessup, David ^b   De Guise, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunotoxicology; Organochlorine; Southern sea otter

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST; SEA OTTER; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; OTTERS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST;

ENHYDRA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS; ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34548424478     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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