Utility of the dried blood on filter paper as a source of cytokine mRNA for the analysis of immunoreactions in Plasmodium yoelii infection

Acta Tropica

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-300

  Maeno, Yoshimasa ^a   Nakazawa, Shusuke ^b   Nagashima, Shigeo ^a   Sasaki, Jun ^a   Higo, Kyoko M ^a   Taniguchi, Koki ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokine profiles; Dried blood; Malaria; mRNA; Plasmodium yoelii; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1 ALPHA; PROTEIN P40; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; FILTER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACROPHAGE; MALARIA; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

PLASMODIUM YOELII;

EID: 0038771947     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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