Intestinal granuloma formation in normal and SCID BALB/C mice infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis

Parasitology Research

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 150-153

  Ishih, A ^a   Baba, S ^a   Nagata, T ^a   Terada, M ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENTEROPATHY; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LARVA; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCID MOUSE; TH1 CELL;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; GRANULOMA; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SNAILS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037217836     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0651-2     Document Type: Article

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