Selective anti-inflammatory action of interleukin-11 in murine Lyme disease: Arthritis decreases while carditis persists

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 734-737

  Anguita, Juan ^a,b,c   Barthold, Stephen W ^a,b,c   Samanta, Swapna ^a,b,c   Ryan, John ^a,b,c   Fikrig, Erol ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG SELECTIVITY; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-11; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MYOCARDITIS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033388911     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314613     Document Type: Article

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