Decreased resistance of TNF receptor p55- and p75-deficient mice to chronic toxoplasmosis despite normal activation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1340-1345

  Yap, George S ^a   Scharton Kersten, Tanya ^a   Charest, Hugues ^a   Sher, Alan ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL EXUDATE CELL; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II; TH1 CELLS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031940206     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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