The systemic immune response of BALB/c mice infected with larval Taenia crassiceps is a mixed Th1/Th2-type response

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 623-633

  Toenjes, S A ^a   Spolski, R J ^a   Mooney, K A ^a   Kuhn, R E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immune responses; Taenia crassiceps; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; PARASITE ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TAENIA;

ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; TAENIA; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

EID: 0033033508     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099004370     Document Type: Article

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