Cryptococcal encephalitis in thermally injured mice is accelerated by type 2 T-cell responses

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1419-1424

  Furukawa, Katsunori ^a   Kobayashi, Makiko ^a,b   Sasaki, Hidetaka ^a   Herndon, David N ^b   Pollard, Richard B ^a   Suzuki, Fujio ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain lymphocytes; Cryptococcal encephalitis; Thermal injury; Type 2 cytokines; Type 2 T cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BURN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THERMAL INJURY;

EID: 0036314173     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200207000-00003     Document Type: Article

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