Cytokine-mediated host responses during schistosome infections; walking the fine line between immunological control and immunopathology

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2002, Pages 265-307

  Hoffmann, Karl F ^a   Wynn, Thomas A ^b   Dunne, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL MODEL; EGG; GRANULOMA; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCID MOUSE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; SCHISTOSOMA; VERMES;

EID: 0036939339     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(02)52014-5     Document Type: Review

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