Interleukin-4 is essential for the control of microfilariae in murine infection with the filaria litomosoides sigmodontis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2950-2956

  Volkmann, L ^a   Saeftel, M ^a   Bain, O ^a   Fischer, K ^a   Fleischer, B ^a   Hoerauf, A ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; FERTILITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LITOMOSOIDES; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MICROFILARIASIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 0035055286     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.5.2950-2956.2001     Document Type: Article

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