A Brugia malayi homolog of macrophage migration inhibitory factor reveals an important link between macrophages and eosinophil recruitment during nematode infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 167, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5348-5354

  Falcone, F H ^a   Loke, P ^a   Zang, X ^a   MacDonald, A S ^a   Maizels, R M ^a   Allen, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EOSINOPHIL CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; PROTEIN BM MIF 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EOSINOPHILIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0035500639     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.9.5348     Document Type: Article

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