Cold stress-induced modulation of inflammatory responses and intracerebral cytokine mRNA expression in acute murine toxoplasmosis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 878-886

  Monroy, Fernando P ^a   Banerjee, Suman K ^a,b   Duong, Taihun ^a,c   Aviles, Hernan ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c Indiana University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLD; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032729210     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285825     Document Type: Article

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