Role of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the immune response to Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 719-720

  Torre, Donato ^a   Speranza, Filippo ^a   Martegani, Roberto ^a  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BRAIN MALARIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER CELL; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0036900560     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(02)00449-8     Document Type: Letter

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