Early IL-12 p70, but not p40, production by splenic macrophages correlates with host resistance to blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi AS malaria

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 343-349

  Sam, H ^a   Stevenson, Mary M ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood stage; IL 12; Malaria; Splenic macrophages

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HELPER CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERLEUKIN-12; KINETICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032867030     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00966.x     Document Type: Article

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