Effects of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi on modulation of the host immune response: Induction of a TH2 cytokine response in Lyme disease-susceptible (C3H/HeJ) mice but not in disease-resistant (BALB/c) mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3100-3106

  Zeidner, Nordin ^a   Mbow, M Lamine ^b   Dolan, Marc ^a   Massung, Robert ^c   Baca, Edwin ^a   Piesman, Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HELPER FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LYMPHOKINE; MONOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFESTATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

EID: 0030767838     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.8.3100-3106.1997     Document Type: Article

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