Host-parasite relationships between Echinostoma caproni and RAG-2- deficient mice

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 337-342

  Frazer, Betsy A ^a   Fried, Bernard ^a   Fujino, Takahiro ^b   Sleckman, Barry P ^c  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; MURINAE;

EID: 0033021118     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050558     Document Type: Article

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