title: Alpha-fetoprotein and phagocytosis in athymic nude mice.
abstract: Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was found to suppress the phagocytic activity of the blood monocytes and neutrophils in vitro. The amounts of AFP detectable by immunofluorescence in the livers of nu/nu, nu/+ and +/+ mice were quite comparable, and thus could not have been responsible for the alterations in phagocytosis found in leukocytes of athymic nude mice during their ontogenetic development.
authors: Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Vĕtvicka
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Holub
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Kovárů
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Siman
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Kovárů
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008819:Mice, Nude; D010586:Phagocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000187:drug effects; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins