Cord blood leptin levels of healthy neonates are associated with IFN-γ production by cord blood T-cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Mouzaki, Athanasia ^a   Panagoulias, Ioannis ^a   Raptis, George ^b   Farri Kostopoulou, Evagellia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ROYAL OLDHAM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD LEPTIN LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CYTOKINES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LEPTIN; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84863994329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040830     Document Type: Article

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