Mast cells in onchocercomas from patients with hyperreactive onchocerciasis (sowda)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-231

  Korten, Simone ^a   Wildenburg, Gabriele ^a   Darge, Kassa ^a   Büttner, Dietrich W ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eosinophils; Hyperreactive onchocerciasis; Ivermectin; Mast cells; Neutrophils; Onchocerca volvulus

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IVERMECTIN; TRYPTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MAST CELL; NEUTROPHIL; ONCHOCERCIASIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHYMASES; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; GRANULOMA; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TRYPTASES;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0032581203     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(98)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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