Gene knockout B cell-deficient mice demonstrate that B cells play an important role in the initiation of T cell responses to Chlamydia trachomatis (mouse pneumonitis) lung infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1439-1446

  Yang, Xi ^a   Brunham, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032146047     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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