Cellular immune responses of filaria (Litomosoides sigmodontis) infected BALB/c mice detected on the level of cytokine transcription

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 453-462

  Taubert, Anja ^a   Zahner, Horst ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular immune response; Cytokine gene transcription; Filaria; Litomosoides sigmodontis

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FILARIA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KINETICS; LITOMOSOIDES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FILARIA; LITOMOSOIDES; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034826952     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2001.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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