Gastrointestinal nematode expulsion in IL-4 knockout mice is IL-13 dependent

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2083-2091

  Bancroft, Allison J ^a   Artis, David ^b   Donaldson, Deborah D ^c   Sypek, Joseph P ^c   Grencis, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Genetics Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Knockout mouse; Trichuris muris

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE TARGETING; INFECTION RESISTANCE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTERLEUKIN-9; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0033924386     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200007)30:7<2083::AID-IMMU2083>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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