Antigen-pulsed epidermal Langerhans cells protect susceptible mice from infection with the intracellular parasite Leishmania major

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3800-3811

  Flohé, Stefanie B ^a,c   Bauer, Carmen ^a   Flohé, Sascha ^b   Moll, Heidrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendritic cell; Langerhans cell; Leishmaniasis; T lymphocyte; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LANGERHANS CELL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-12; LANGERHANS CELLS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SKIN; SPLEEN;

EID: 0031739890     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199811)28:11<3800::AID-IMMU3800>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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