Increased biodiversity in the environment improves the humoral response of rats.

Previous studies have compared the immune systems of wild and of laboratory rodents in an effort to determine how laboratory rodents differ from their naturally occurring relatives. This comparison serves as an indicator of what sorts of changes might exist between modern humans living in Western cu...

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Main Authors: Cinthia Pi, Emma H Allott, Daniel Ren, Susan Poulton, S Y Ryan Lee, Sarah Perkins, Mary Lou Everett, Zoie E Holzknecht, Shu S Lin, William Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4390306?pdf=render