Impaired resistance to the development of toxoplasmic encephalitis in interleukin-6-deficient mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2339-2345

  Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Rani, Sailaja ^a   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^a,b   Kojima, Toshiyuki ^a,b,d   Lim, Samantha ^a   Nguyen, Thu A ^a   Dalrymple, Stacie A ^c   Murray, Richard ^c   Remington, Jack S ^a,b  

^a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0030914438     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2339-2345.1997     Document Type: Article

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