Mice lacking bioactive IL-12 can generate protective, antigen-specific cellular responses to mycobacterial infection only if the IL-12 p40 subunit is present

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1322-1327

  Cooper, Andrea M ^a   Kipnis, Andre ^a   Turner, Joanne ^a   Magram, Jeanne ^a   Ferrante, Jessica ^a   Orme, Ian M ^a  

^a TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DISRUPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036467445     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.3.1322     Document Type: Article

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