Effects of low-dose radiation on the immune system of mice after total-body irradiation

Radiation Research

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 480-489

  Bogdándi, Enikö Noémi ^a   Balogh, Andrea ^a   Felgyinszki, Nikolett ^a   Szatmári, Tünde ^a   Persa, Eszter ^a   Hildebrandt, Guido ^b   Sáfrány, Géza ^a   Lumniczky, Katalin ^a  

^a National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN CELL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; METABOLISM; RADIATION RESPONSE; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPLEEN;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 77957226847     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2160.1     Document Type: Article

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