Toxoplasma gondii: Difference of invasion into tissue of digestive organs between susceptible and resistant strain and influence of IFN-γ in mice inoculated with the cysts perorally

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 973-975

  Kobayashi, Masashi ^a   Aosai, Fumie ^a   Hata, Hidekazu ^a   Mun, Hye Seong ^a   Tagawa, Yoh Ichi ^b   Iwakura, Yoichiro ^b   Yano, Akihiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; CECUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESENTERY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032730208     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285841     Document Type: Article

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