Animal model of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection using germfree mice

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 669-676

  Hayakawa, Masayuki ^a   Taguchi, Haruhiko ^a   Kamiya, Shigeru ^a   Fujioka, Yasunori ^a   Watanabe, Hidehiro ^a   Kawai, Shin ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0036112605     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.3.669-676.2002     Document Type: Article

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