Relationships between IFNγ, IL-6, corticosterone, and Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis in BALB/c mice

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-18

  Kim, Dongsoo ^a,b   Reilly, Andrew ^a,b   Lawrence, David A ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone (CORT); Cytokine; Host resistance; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; IFN ; IL 6; Listeria monocytogenes; Mice

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTERONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BLOOD LEVEL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; LISTERIOSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOGENICITY; SPLEEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-6; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SIZE; SPLEEN;

EID: 0035834867     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cimm.2000.1749     Document Type: Article

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