Do interleukin-6 and macrophage-migration inhibitory factor play a role during sex-associated susceptibility in murine cysticercosis?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 901-904

  Morales Montor, Jorge ^a   Baig, Salman ^b   Kabbani, Ahmed ^b   Damian, Raymond T ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMINIZATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; MURINAE; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

EID: 0036037652     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0674-8     Document Type: Article

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