Immune destruction of larval Taenia crassiceps in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2393-2401

  Mooney, K A ^a   Spolski, R J ^a   See, E J ^a   Kuhn, R E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST CELL; INOCULATION; LARVA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; TAENIA; TAENIASIS;

EID: 0034060251     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.5.2393-2401.2000     Document Type: Article

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