Gender is a major determinant of the clinical evolution and immune response in hamsters infected with Leishmania spp.

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2288-2296

  Travi, Bruno L ^a   Osorio, Yaneth ^a   Melby, Peter C ^a   Chandrasekar, Bysani ^a   Arteaga, Lourdes ^a   Saravia, Nancy G ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CRICETINAE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036117769     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.5.2288-2296.2002     Document Type: Article

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