Immune regulation by helminth parasites: Cellular and molecular mechanisms

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 733-744

  Maizels, Rick M ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; ECTOPARASITE; FUNGUS; HELMINTH; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; ANIMAL; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0141576694     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1183     Document Type: Review

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