Augmentation of the CD8+ T cell response by IFN-γ in IL-12-deficient mice during Toxoplasma gondii infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 5449-5454

  Ely, Kenneth H ^a   Kasper, Lloyd H ^a   Khan, Imtiaz A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; STEM CELLS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033136323     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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