Impact of iron deficiency anemia on cell-mediated and humoral immunity in children: A case control study

Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 158-163

  Das, Indranil ^a   Saha, Kaushik ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Debanjan ^a   Roy, Shreosee ^a   Raychaudhuri, Gargi ^b   Chatterjee, Mitali ^a   Mitra, Pradip ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Nursing Training Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Cell mediated immunity; flow cytometry; humoral immunity; iron deficiency anemia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897594503     PISSN: 09769668     EISSN: 22297707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.127317     Document Type: Article

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