Effect of dietary administration of kynurenic acid on the activity of splenocytes of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Central-European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 475-479

  Małaczewska, Joanna ^a   Siwicki, Andrzej Krzysztof ^a   Wójcik, Roman ^a   Kaczorek, Edyta ^a   Turski, Waldemar Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Kynurenic acid; Phagocytic cells activity; Proliferative response; Rainbow trout; Splenocytes

Indexed keywords

KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; RAINBOW TROUT; RESPIRATORY BURST; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84892172330     PISSN: 14263912     EISSN: 16444124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/ceji.2013.39764     Document Type: Article

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