Pregnancy impairs resistance of C57BL/6 mice to Leishmania major infection and causes decreased antigen-specific IFN-γ responses and increased production of T helper 2 cytokines

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 644-652

  Krishnan, Lakshmi ^a   Guilbert, Larry J ^a   Russell, Anthony S ^a   Wegmann, Thomas G ^a   Mosmann, Tim R ^a   Belosevic, Miodrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOT PAD; HELPER CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

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