Is there a role for antioxidant carotenoids in limiting self-harming immune response in invertebrates?

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 284-288

  Cornet, Stéphane ^a   Biard, Clotilde ^a   Moret, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Ecological immunology; Immune costs

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; ANTIOXIDANT; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; PATHOGEN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMARUS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CRUSTACEA; GAMMARUS PULEX; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAROTENOIDS; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 38449102049     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0003     Document Type: Article

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