Nutritional imbalances and infections affect the thymus: Consequences on T-cell-mediated immune responses

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 636-643

  Savino, Wilson ^a   Dardenne, Mireille ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Extracellular matrix; Infections; Malnutrition; Thymic microenvironment; Thymocytes; Thymus

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; APOPTOSIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; EBOLA VIRUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SYPHILIS; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY; THYMUS FUNCTION; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TULAREMIA; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

DEFICIENCY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INFECTION; MICRONUTRIENTS; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 79951954004     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: 14752719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665110002545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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