The role of eosinophils in parasitic helminth infections: Insights from genetically modified mice

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 202-209

  Behm, C A ^a   Ovington, K S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTEGRIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 5; L SELECTIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CESTODE; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST RESISTANCE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; TH2 CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREMATODE; WORM INFECTION;

MAMMALIA; VERMES;

EID: 0034192068     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01620-8     Document Type: Review

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