Immune Function in Healthy Adolescents
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Immune function in healthy adolescents.
In the present study, we examine immunological functioning in normal healthy African-American and Latino/Latina adolescents recruited from an inner-city high school and an inner-city clinic. A battery of tests was performed with enumerative and functional measures which encompassed both innate and adaptive immunity. We found immune differences related to age, gender, and race on both the enumer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1071-412X,1098-6588
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.1.105-113.1998