IL-4-deficient Balb/c mice resist infection with Leishmania major

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1127-1136

  Kopf, Manfred ^a   Brombacher, Frank ^a   Köhler, Gabriele ^a   Kienzle, Georg ^a   Widmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Lefrang, Karin ^a   Humborg, Cornelia ^a   Ledermannji, Birgit ^a   Solbad, Werner ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DOSAGE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; LEISHMANIA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

EID: 0029787798     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.3.1127     Document Type: Article

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