Cytokine regulation of resistance and susceptibility to intestinal nematode infection - From host to parasite

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 45-50

  Grencis, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Helminths; Immunity; Nematodes; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOWN REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MOUSE STRAIN; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTECTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRICHURIS; WORM EXPULSION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PHENOTYPE; TRICHURIASIS;

EID: 0035850575     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(01)00482-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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