Are inflammation and immunological hyperactivity needed for filarial parasite development?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 70-73

  Ravindran, Balachandran ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HELPER CELL; HOST; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LARVA; MACROPHAGES; MAMMALS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 0035015402     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(00)01835-3     Document Type: Review

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