Increased severity of Candida vaginitis in BALB/c nu/nu mice versus the parent strain is not abrogated by adoptive transfer of T cell enriched lymphocytes

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Black, C Allen ^a   Eyers, Fiona M ^b   Russell, Adrian ^c   Dunkley, Margaret L ^b,c   Clancy, Robert L ^c   Beagley, Kenneth W ^c  

^a Gynaecol Repro Sci Magee W ^*  (United States)

^b Australian Inst of Mucosal Immunol   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Nude mice; T lymphocyte; Vaginitis

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; INTERLEUKIN-3; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VAGINA;

EID: 0032828646     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(99)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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