Effects of barium chloride on the immune functions in mice / 第三军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

The effects of barium chloride(BaCl2)on several items of the immune functions of mice were observed.After the mice had drunk water containing 10 mg/L and 100 mg/L of BaCl2 for one month,evident histological changes of their liver were observed but no remarkable changes were found in the spleen,the lymph nodes,the thymus,the bone marrow and the peripheral leucocytes.In the 100 mg/L group,the transformation rate of the ConA-stimulated lymphocytes of the spleen was significantly lower than that of the control(P