Interferon-γ receptor-deficiency renders mice highly susceptible to toxoplasmosis by decreased macrophage activation

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 827-841

  Deckert Schlüter, Martina ^a   Rang, Andrea ^a   Weiner, Daniela ^b   Huang, Sui ^c   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a   Hof, Herbert ^b   Schlüter, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN L 929; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CYTOKINES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; INTESTINE, SMALL; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030467716     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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