Female scent signals enhance the resistance of male mice to influenza

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Litvinova, Ekaterina A ^a   Goncharova, Elena P ^b   Zaydman, Alla M ^c   Zenkova, Marina A ^b   Moshkin, Mikhail P ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY OF ANIMALS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedy   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PROTECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STIMULUS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; ANIMAL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LUNG; METABOLISM; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

MUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; VERMES;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; LEUKOCYTES; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ODORS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHEROMONES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77949746262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009473     Document Type: Article

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