Persistent production of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and associated MHC and adhesion molecule expression at the site of infection and disease in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-213

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Tarleton, Rick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030296902     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0106     Document Type: Article

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