The IL-4 rapidly produced in BALB/c mice after infection with leishmania major down-regulates IL-12 receptor β2-chain expression on CD4+ T cells resulting in a state of unresponsiveness to IL-12

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6156-6163

  Himmelrich, Hayo ^a   Parra Lopez, Carlos ^a   Tacchini Cottier, Fabienne ^a   Louis, Jacques A ^a   Launois, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-12; RNA, MESSENGER; TH2 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032403583     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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