Acute and subacute effects of dexamethasone on the number of white blood cells in rats

Journal of Health Science

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Ohkaru, Yasuhiko ^a   Arai, Natsuko ^a   Ohno, Hitoshi ^a   Sato, Shogo ^a   Sakakibara, Yuko ^a   Suzuki, Hiroko ^a   Aritoshi, Shoko ^a   Akimoto, Shunta ^a   Ban, Takamasa ^a   Tanihata, Jun ^a   Tachiyashiki, Kaoru ^b   Imaizumi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoid; Lymphocyte; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

RATTUS;

EID: 77953296258     PISSN: 13449702     EISSN: 13475207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1248/jhs.56.215     Document Type: Article

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