Impact of sex steroid ablation on viral, tumour and vaccine responses in aged mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Heng, Tracy S P ^a   Reiseger, Jessica J ^a   Fletcher, Anne L ^a,b   Leggatt, Graham R ^c   White, Olivia J ^c   Vlahos, Katerina ^a   Frazer, Ian H ^c   Turner, Stephen J ^d   Boyd, Richard L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CANCER VACCINES; CASTRATION; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS; REGENERATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; THYMUS GLAND; VACCINATION;

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 84864559744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042677     Document Type: Article

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