The immune response to parasitic helminths: Insights from murine models

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 269-277

  Gause, William C ^a   Urban Jr , Joseph F ^b   Stadecker, Miguel J ^c  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BELTSVILLE HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE 28; LIGAND; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); THIOREDOXIN PEROXIDASE; THIOREDOXIN PEROXIDASE 1; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVITY; CESTODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG SCREENING; EFFECTOR CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FILARIA; GRANULOMA; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HELPER CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0038739290     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4906(03)00101-7     Document Type: Review

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