The role of vitamin A in enhancing humoral immunity produced by antirabies vaccine;Le rôle de la vitamine A dans le renforcement de l’immunité humorale produite par le vaccin antirabique

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 799-804

  Siddiqui, F Q ^a   Ahmad, M M ^b   Kakar, F ^c   Akhtar, S ^d   Dil, A S ^e  

^a Drugs Control and Traditional Medicines Division   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c World Health Orqanization   (Pakistan)

^d Riological Production Division   (Pakistan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE; RETINOL; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL STATUS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BLOOD; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RABIES VIRUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RABIES VACCINES; RABIES VIRUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 4944251265     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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