The cell-mediated immune response to Borrelia afzelii, garinii and burgdorferi in C57BL/6 mice is dependent on antigen specificity

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-240

  Malovrh, Tadej ^a   Skoberne, Mojca ^a   Gruntar, Igor ^a   Kotnik, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Antibody; Bacterial; Borrelia immunology; Inbred C57BL 6; Lymphocyte transformation; Mouse

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034426214     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(00)00161-9     Document Type: Article

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