Interleukin-10 downregulates the intracerebral immune response in chronic Toxoplasma encephalitis

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 167-176

  Deckert Schlüter, Martina ^a   Buck, Christine ^a   Weiner, Daniela ^b   Kaefer, Nadja ^b   Rang, Andrea ^a   Hof, Herbert ^b   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a   Schlüter, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Interleukin 10; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 0030941325     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(97)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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