L-arginine reverses radiation-induced immune dysfunction: The need for optimum treatment window

Radiation Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-187

  Shukla, Jyoti ^a,b   Chatterjee, Saurabh ^a   Thakur, V S ^a   Premachandran, Sudha ^a   Checker, Rahul ^a   Poduval, T B ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ARGINASE; ARGININE; CONCANAVALIN A; DNA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GAMMA RADIATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SERUM; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA PRIMERS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; MALE; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

MUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 59649115414     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1241.1     Document Type: Article

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