Angiostrongylus costaricensis infection in C57BL/6 mice: MHC-II deficiency results in increased larval elimination but unaltered mortality

Parasitology Research

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 415-420

  Geiger, S M ^a,b   Hoffmann, W H ^a   Soboslay, P T ^a   Pfaff, A W ^a   Graeff Teixeira, C ^c   Schulz Key, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LARVA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE; WORM INFECTION;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FECES; GENES, MHC CLASS II; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGENS; SPLEEN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0041660972     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0853-2     Document Type: Article

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