Antibody and Th1/Th2-type responses in BALB/c mice inoculated with live or dead Echinococcus granulosus protoscoleces

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-26

  Dematteis, Sylvia ^a   Baz, Adriana ^a   Rottenberg, Martín ^b   Fernández, Cecilia ^a   Örn, Anders ^b   Nieto, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E. granulosus; Hydatid disease; T independent response; Th1 Th2 type responses

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONEAL CAVITY; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0033010056     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1999.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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