Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis: Immune response in susceptible and resistant BALB/c mouse substrains

Parasitology Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 236-242

  López Briones, Sergio ^a   Lamoyi, Edmundo ^a   Fragoso, Gladis ^a   Soloski, Mark J ^b   Sciutto, Edda ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; RODENTIA; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; MUS;

EID: 0038347791     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0848-z     Document Type: Article

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