Diazepam leads to enhanced severity of orthopoxvirus infection and immune suppression

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 6152-6158

  Huemer, Hartwig P ^a   Lassnig, Caroline ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^b   Irschick, Eveline U ^a   Kitchen, Maria ^a   Pavlic, Marion ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Cowpox; Diazepam; Immunosuppression; Poxvirus; Vaccinia; Valium

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MEDAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NORDAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SPLEEN CELL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALPRAZOLAM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COWPOX VIRUS; DIAZEPAM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPLEEN; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 77955663635     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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