Vitamin A status is associated with T-cell responses in Bangladeshi men

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 797-802

  Ahmad, Shaikh M ^a,b   Haskell, Marjorie J ^a   Raqib, Rubhana ^b   Stephensen, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

2H retinol dilution; RDA; T helper type 1 and 2 cytokines; T cell phenotypes; Vitamin A; Vitamin A stores

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MITOGENIC AGENT; PLACEBO; RETINOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOLUNTEER; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; IMMUNOLOGY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449718895     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509316165     Document Type: Article

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