The impact of social isolation on immunological parameters in rats

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 853-855

  Krügel, Ute ^a   Fischer, Johannes ^a   Bauer, Katrin ^a   Sack, Ulrich ^a   Himmerich, Hubertus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Housing; IFN ; IL 10; IL 2; IL 22; IL 4; Rats; Stress; TNF

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; INTERLEUKIN-22;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SWIMMING; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 84894563764     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-014-1203-0     Document Type: Article

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