Plasma Interleukin-12 in Malaria-Tolerant Papua New Guineans: Inverse Correlation with Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6354-6357

  Boutlis, Craig S ^a,b   Lagog, Moses ^e   Chaisavaneeyakorn, Sujittra ^f   Misukonis, Mary A ^g   Bockarie, Moses J ^e   Mgone, Charles S ^e   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Morahan, Grant ^d   Weinberg, J Brice ^g   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^f   Anstey, Nicholas M ^a,c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^f NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN P40;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENSITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-12; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITEMIA;

EID: 0242381220     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6354-6357.2003     Document Type: Article

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