Aging alters the production of iNOS, arginase and cytokines in murine macrophages
The limited amount of information on the primary age-related deficiencies in the innate immune system led us to study the production of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), arginase, and cytokines in macrophages of young (8 weeks old) and old (72 weeks old) female BALB/c mice. We first evaluated...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2011-07-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2011000700010&lng=en&tlng=en |