The role of nitric oxide in the innate resistance to microfilariae of Litomosoides sigmodontis in mice

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 397-405

  Pfaff, Alexander W ^a   Schulz Key, Hartwig ^a   Soboslay, Peter T ^a   Geiger, Stefan M ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunomodulation; Litomosoides sigmodontis; Microfilariae; Nitric oxide; Th1

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNITY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LITOMOSOIDES; MICROFILARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROFILARIA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; SPLEEN;

EID: 0033931456     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2000.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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