STAT-4 mediated IL-12 signaling pathway is critical for the development of protective immunity in cutaneous leishmaniasis

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2524-2529

  Stamm, Luisa M ^a   Satoskar, Anjali A ^b   Ghosh, Sudip K ^a   David, John R ^a   Satoskar, Abhay R ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious immunity parasites; Signal transduction; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HELPER CELL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPH NODE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0032785433     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199908)29:08<2524::AID-IMMU2524>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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