A critical role for IL-13 in resistance to intestinal nematode infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3453-3461

  Bancroft, Allison J ^a   McKenzie, Andrew N J ^b   Grencis, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TH2 CELLS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS;

EID: 0032055579     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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