Melatonin membrane receptor type MT1 modulates cell-mediated immunity in the seasonally breeding tropical rodent funambulus pennanti

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-59

  Ahmad, Raise ^a   Haldar, Chandana ^a   Gupta, Sameer ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

4 phenyl 2 propionamidotetralin; Cell mediated immunity; Desensitization; Funambuluspennanti; Luzindole; Melatonin receptor; MT1 receptor; MT2 receptor

Indexed keywords

4 PHENYL 2 PROPIONAMIDOTETRALIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2; LUZINDOLE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN 1 RECEPTOR; MELATONIN 2 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNAMBULUS PENNANTI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; SQUIRREL; UPREGULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONCANAVALIN A; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MELATONIN; MITOGENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECEPTOR, MELATONIN, MT1; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; SPLEEN; TETRAHYDRONAPHTHALENES; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 80855138383     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327293     Document Type: Article

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