Defence against the immune barrage: Helminth survival strategies

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 564-574

  Riffkin, Michael ^a,c,d   Seow, Heng Fong ^b   Jackson, David ^a,c   Brown, Lorena ^a,c   Wood, Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research   (Australia)

^c CRC for Vaccine Technology   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

cestode; cytokine; helminth; immuno evasion; immunomodulation; immunosuppre ssion; nematode; trematode

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; SHEEP; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

CESTODA; OVIS ARIES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TREMATODA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; VERMES;

EID: 0029729184     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1996.90     Document Type: Review

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