Environmental enrichment does not compromise the immune response in mice chronically infected with mycobacterium avium

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 249-257

  Olsson, I A S ^a   Costa, A ^a   Nobrega, C ^a,b,c   Roque, S ^c   Correia Neves, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; MATERIALS HANDLING; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77950019243     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2010.02371.x     Document Type: Article

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