Immunoregulation in onchocerciasis: Predominance of Th1-type responsiveness to low molecular weight antigens of Onchocerca volvulus in exposed individuals without microfilaridermia and clinical disease

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-253

  Luder C G K ^a,d   Schulz Key, H ^a   Banla, M ^b   Pritze, S ^c   Soboslay, P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Ctr Hosp de la Reg Centrale   (Togo)

^c Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular responses; Cytokines; Fractionated antigens; Onchocerciasis; T helper cell subsets

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0030018703     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1996.d01-747.x     Document Type: Article

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