T cells facilitate Brugia malayi development in TCRα(null) mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-57

  Babu, Subash ^a   Shultz, Leonard D ^b   Rajan, T V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032878166     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4438     Document Type: Article

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