IL-15 prolongs the duration of CD8+ T cell-mediated immunity in mice infected with a vaccine strain of Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4503-4509

  Khan, Imtiaz A ^a   Casciotti, Lori ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 15; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 15; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-15; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032853312     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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