Onchocerca volvulus-mediated keratitis: Cytokine production by il-4-deficient mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 274-281

  Pearlman, Eric ^a   Lass, Jonathan H ^b   Bardenstein, David S ^b   Diaconu, Eugenia ^b   Hazlett Jr , Fred E ^b   Albright, Jamie ^a   Higgins, Alan W ^b   Kazura, James W ^a  

^a Division of Geographic Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Cytokines; Eosinophils; IL, interleukin; Inflammation; Keratitis; Onchocerca volvulus; OvAg, O. Volvulus soluble antigen; T helper cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CORNEA; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KERATITIS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CORNEA; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKINS; KERATITIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0030293701     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0113     Document Type: Article

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