Immunomodulatory effects of cold stress on mice infected intraperitoneally with a 50% lethal dose of Toxoplasma gondii

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-12

  Aviles, Hernan ^a   Monroy, Fernando P ^a,b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stress; IFN ; IL 12; Immunomodulation; Infection; Macrophages; TNF ; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD; FEMALE; IMMERSION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; INTERLEUKIN-2; LETHAL DOSE 50; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONITIS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STRESS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0034933595     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000049002     Document Type: Article

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