Parasite immunity: Pathways for expelling intestinal helminths

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 1998, Pages

  Maizels, Rick M ^a   Holland, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERMES;

CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL; EOSINOPHIL; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MAST CELLS; MICE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032497438     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70455-5     Document Type: Article

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