Trypanosoma cruzi: T cell subpopulations in the Peyer's patches of BALB/c infected mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-64

  Antunez, Maria Inés ^a   Feinstein, Ricardo E ^b   Cardoni, Rita L ^a   Grönvik, Kjell Olov ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Parasitologia   (Argentina)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Correlation coefficient (r2); FACS, fluorescence activated cell sorter; FCS, fetal calf serum; FITC, fluorescein isothioeyanate; Ig, immunoglobulin; Ip, intraperitoneally; LD50 lethal dose fifty; MAb, monoclonal antibody; PBS, phosphate buffered saline; PE, phycoerythrin; Peyer's patches; Pi, postinfection; Protozoan; SC, subcutaneous; SCID, severe combined immune deficiency; T cells; TCR, T cell receptor; Thymus; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031238915     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4171     Document Type: Article

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