Interleukin-12 and the host response to parasitic helminths; the paradoxical effect on protective immunity and immunopathology

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 509-517

  Mountford, Adrian P ^a   Pearlman, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugia; Filariae; Interleukin 12; Nematode; Onchocerca; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12;

FILARIA; HELMINTHIASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NEMATODE; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INTERLEUKIN-12; MICE;

BRUGIA; FILARIA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; SCHISTOSOMA; VERMES;

EID: 0031774654     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1998.00182.x     Document Type: Review

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