Cytokine profiles during experimental Chagas' disease

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-125

  Morato, M J F ^a   Colley, D G ^b   Powell, M R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Experimental Chagas' disease; IFN ; IL 10; IL 4; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

MURINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DBA MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA;

EID: 0031615002     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X1998000100016     Document Type: Article

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