Altered immune responses and susceptibility to Leishmania major and Staphylococcus aureus infection in IL-18-deficient mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2821-2828

  Wei, Xiao Qing ^a   Leung, Bernard P ^a   Niedbala, Wanda ^a   Piedrafita, David ^a   Feng, Gui Jie ^a   Sweet, Matt ^a   Dobbie, Lorraine ^b   Smith, Andrew J H ^b   Liew, Foo Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CELLULAR IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERLEUKIN-18; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033198145     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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