Interleukin-6-deficient mice are highly susceptible to Giardia lamblia infection but exhibit normal intestinal immunoglobulin A responses against the parasite

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1569-1573

  Bienz, Marianne ^a   Dai, Wen Juan ^a   Welle, Monika ^a   Gottstein, Bruno ^a   Müller, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH2 CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-6; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037369751     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.3.1569-1573.2003     Document Type: Article

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