Human T cell responses against the major cysteine proteinase (cruzipain) of Trypanosoma cruzi: Role of the multifunctional α2-macroglobulin receptor in antigen presentation by monocytes

International Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 825-834

  Morrot, Alexandre ^a   Strickland, Dudley K ^b   Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^c   Reis, Marcia ^c   Pedrosa, Roberte ^a   Scharfstein, Julio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2 macroglobulin; Antigen processing; Chagas' disease; Cysteine proteinases; T cells; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNALIZATION; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 1; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MONOCYTES; MYOCARDITIS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031006739     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/9.6.825     Document Type: Article

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