The role of dendritic cells in the initiation of host resistance to Toxoplasma gondii

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 452, Issue , 1998, Pages 103-110

  Sher, Alan ^a   Hieny, Sara ^a   Charest, Hugues ^a   Scharton Kersten, Tanya ^a   Collazo, Carmen ^a   Germain, Ronald N ^a   Reis E Sousa, Caetano ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HOST; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031756310     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5355-7_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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