The role of natural killer cells in the early period of infection in murine cutaneous leishmaniasis

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-325

  Laurenti, M D ^a   Gidlund, M ^b,c   Ura, D M ^a   Sinhorini, I L ^b   Corbett, C E P ^a   Goto, H ^b,d  

^a Departamento de Patologia   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis; NK cells; Strontium 90

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM 90;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LEISHMANIA; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; MURINAE;

EID: 0032899553     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X1999000300012     Document Type: Article

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