Studies on the role of mucus and mucosal hypersensitivity reactions during rejection of Trichostrongylus colubriformis from the intestine of immune sheep using an experimental challenge model

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 459-468

  Harrison, G B L ^a   Pulford, H D ^a   Gatehouse, T K ^a   Shaw, R J ^a   Pfeffer, A ^a   Shoemaker, C B ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mucosal immunity; Mucus; Nematodes; Sheep; Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; OXFENDAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; INTESTINE FLUID; MAST CELL; MUCUS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; HISTAMINE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LARVA; MUCUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 0032907757     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(98)00221-5     Document Type: Article

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