Specific antibody to Cryptococcus neoformans alters human leukocyte cytokine synthesis and promotes T-cell proliferation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1244-1247

  Vecchiarelli, Anna ^a   Retini, Cinzia ^a   Monari, Claudia ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0031936352     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1244-1247.1998     Document Type: Article

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