Nitric oxide and cytokine synthesis in human African trypanosomiasis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1086-1090

  MacLean, Lorna ^a   Odiit, Martin ^b   Sternberg, Jeremy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Livestock Health Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0035887631     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323479     Document Type: Article

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