Malnutrition alters the rates of apoptosis in splenocytes and thymocyte subpopulations of rats

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-106

  Ortiz, R ^a   Cortes L ^a   Cortes E ^a   Medina, H ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; Lymphoid atrophy; Malnourished; Spleen; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DEXAMETHASONE; LIPOCORTIN 5; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DEATH; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LACTATION; MALNUTRITION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 57449108519     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03796.x     Document Type: Article

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