Developmental stage-specific changes in immunological biomarkers in male C3H/HeN mice after early life toluene exposure

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-141

  Win Shwe, Tin Tin ^a   Kunugita, Naoki ^b   Nakajima, Daisuke ^a   Yoshida, Yasuhiro ^c   Fujimaki, Hidekazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Developmental stage; Immunotoxicity; Spleen; Toluene

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 12; MESSENGER RNA; TOLUENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN-12; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOLUENE;

MUS;

EID: 81255213881     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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