Resistance to the African trypanosomes is IFN-γ dependent

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 6775-6783

  Hertz, Cheryl J ^a   Filutowicz, Hanna ^a   Mansfield, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; PARASITEMIA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TH1 CELLS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0032534673     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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