Resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice does not necessarily correlate with production of interferon-γ in vivo

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Meyer Zum Büschenfelde, Christian ^a   Cramer, Sven ^a   Fleischer, Bernhard ^a   Frosch, Stefanie ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interferon ; Interleukin 4; T cell mediated immunity; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPLEEN CELL; SURVIVAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031731845     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050081     Document Type: Article

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