Innate resistance to Trypanosoma congolense infections: Differential production of nitric oxide by macrophages from susceptible BALB/c and resistant C57B1/6 mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-143

  Kaushik, Radhey S ^a   Uzonna, Jude E ^a   Gordon, John R ^a   Tabel, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infectivity; Macrophages; Nitric oxide; Phagocytosis; Trypanosoma congolense

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 0032800698     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4408     Document Type: Article

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