UV-B irradiation increases susceptibility of mice to malarial infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2353-2355

  Yamamoto, Kiichi ^a   Ito, Reiko ^a   Koura, Minako ^a   Kamiyama, Tsuneo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; MACROPHAGES; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0034100627     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.2353-2355.2000     Document Type: Article

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