Immunotoxic effects of TCDD and toxic eq
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Joseph G. Vos; Cees De Heer; Henk Van Loveren
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper first summarizes the studies indicating that the immunotoxic effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), notably atrophy of the thymus and suppression of the thymus-dependent immunity, are mediated by binding to a soluble cytosolic protein, the aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) or TCDD rec