Dynamic analysis of T-lymphocyte function in relation to hepatopathologic changes and effect of interleukin-12 treatment in mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-262

  Yang, Jun Qi ^a   Tasaka, Kachio ^a   Chuang, Cheng Kuo ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideshi ^a   Nakajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN-12; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0033013428     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285629     Document Type: Article

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