Infection pattern and immune response in the spleen and liver of BALB/c mice intracardially infected with Leishmania donovani amastigotes

Immunology Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-138

  Mukherjee, Piyali ^a   Ghosh, Asish K ^a,b   Ghose, Asoke C ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Cytokines; Immunosuppression; INOS; Nitric oxide; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CONCANAVALIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LIVER; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0037417146     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2478(03)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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