Perforin-Mediated Cytolysis Plays a Limited Role in Host Resistance to Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1903-1908

  Denkers, Eric Y ^b   Yap, George ^a   Scharton Kersten, Tanya ^a   Charest, Hugues ^a   Butcher, Barbara A ^a,b   Caspar, Patricia ^a   Heiny, Sara ^a   Sher, Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERFORIN; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031571269     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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