Combined effects of IL-12 and IL-18 on the clinical course and local cytokine production in murine pulmonary infection with Cryptococcus neoformans

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 643-649

  Qureshi, Mahboob Hossain ^a   Zhang, Tiantuo ^a   Koguchi, Yoshinobu ^a   Nakashima, Kazutoshi ^a   Okamura, Haruki ^b   Kurimoto, Masashi ^c   Kawakami, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; IFN ; IL 12; IL 18; IL 4

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-18; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033029561     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199902)29:02<643::AID-IMMU643>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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