LeIF: A recombinant Leishmania protein that induces an IL-12-mediated Th1 cytokine profile

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6171-6179

  Skeiky, Yasir A W ^a   Kennedy, Mary ^c   Kaufman, David ^d   Borges, Monamaris M ^e   Guderian, Jeffrey A ^a   Scholler, John K ^a   Ovendale, Pamela J ^a   Picha, Kathleen S ^c   Morrissey, Philip J ^c   Grabstein, Kenneth H ^a   Campos Neto, Antonio ^b   Reed, Steven G ^a,b,f  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; HOST RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPH NODE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, SCID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPLEEN; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 0032403592     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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