Immune response to the cestode Hymenolepis nana: Cytokine production during infection with eggs or cysts

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-327

  Conchedda, M ^a   Bortoletti, G ^a   Gabriele, F ^a   Wakelin, D ^b   Palmas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; C3H mice; cytokines; egg cyst infection; Hymenolepis nana; IFN ; IL 2; IL 3; IL 4; IL 5

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-3; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVUM; TH1 CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; VERMES;

EID: 0030957485     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(96)00179-8     Document Type: Article

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