Successful therapy of lethal murine visceral leishmaniasis with cystatin involves up-regulation of nitric oxide and a favorable T cell response

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 4020-4028

  Das, L ^a   Datta, N ^a   Bandyopadhyay, S ^a   Das, P K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0035869563     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.6.4020     Document Type: Article

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