Brugia malayi: Acquired resistance to microfilariae in balb/c mice correlates with local Th2 responses

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 200-208

  Pearlman, Eric ^a   Kroeze, Wesley K ^a   Hazlett, Fred E ^a   Chen, Swe Shen Alex ^b,c   Mawhorter, Steven D ^a   Boom, W Henry ^a   Kazura, James W ^a  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HELPER CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MICROFILARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BRUGIA MALAYI; FILARIASIS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNIZATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROFILARIA; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0027223562     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1993.1023     Document Type: Article

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