Mice Deficient in Nuclear Factor of Activated T-Cell Transcription Factor c2 Mount Increased Th2 Responses after Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and Decreased Th1 Responses after Mycobacterial Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6641-6647

  Erb, Klaus J ^a   Twardzik, Thomas ^a   Palmetshofer, Alois ^a   Wohlleben, Gisela ^a   Tatsch, Ursula ^a   Serfling, Edgar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LYMPHOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT C2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HELMINTH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0242381188     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6641-6647.2003     Document Type: Article

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