T helper responsiveness in human Loa loa infection; defective specific proliferation and cytokine production by CD4+ T cells from microfilaraemic subjects compared with amicrofilaraemics

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 272-278

  Baize, S ^a   Wahl, G ^a   Soboslay, P T ^b   Egwang, T G ^a   Georges, A J ^a  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

human Loa loa; T lymphocytes; unresponsiveness cytokines

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FILARIASIS; GABON; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LOA LOA; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MICROFILARIASIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0030992341     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1997.d01-1010.x     Document Type: Article

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