Increased susceptibility to immunologically mediated glomerulonephritis in IFN-γ-deficient mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2243-2248

  Ring, Guido H ^a   Dai, Zhenhua ^a   Saleem, Sohail ^a   Baddoura, Fady K ^b   Lakkis, Fadi G ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA;

ALBUMINURIA; ANIMALS; ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON TYPE II; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; NITRATES; NITRITES;

EID: 0033567013     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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