Priming of a β-galactosidase (β-GAL)-specific type 1 response in BALB/c mice infected with β-GAL-transfected Leishmania major

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 809-814

  Chakkalath, Hrishekesh R ^a   Siddiqui, Afzal A ^a,e   Shankar, Anuraj H ^a,f   Dobson, Deborah E ^c   Beverley, Stephen M ^b,c   Titus, Richard G ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; TH1 CELLS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033958919     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.809-814.2000     Document Type: Article

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