Humoral immune responses are maintained with age in a long-lived ectotherm, the red-eared slider turtle

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 633-640

  Zimmerman, Laura M ^a   Clairardin, Sandrine G ^a   Paitz, Ryan T ^a   Hicke, Justin W ^a   LaMagdeleine, Katie A ^a   Vogel, Laura A ^a   Bowden, Rachel M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eco immunology; Reptile; Trachemys scripta

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TURTLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SEASONS; TURTLES;

EID: 84873447614     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.078832     Document Type: Article

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