Anti-IL-4 treatment of Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice inhibits development of T cells and non-B, non-T cells expressing Th2 cytokines while decreasing egg-induced hepatic fibrosis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 753-759

  Cheever, Allen W ^a,c   Williams, Megan E ^a   Wynn, Thomas A ^a   Finkelman, Fred D ^b   Seder, Robert A ^a   Cox, Teresa M ^a   Hieny, Sara ^a   Caspar, Patricia ^a   Sher, Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 5; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0028363023     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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