Changes in pulmonary function and parasite burden in rats infected with Strongyloides venezuelensis concomitant with induction of allergic airway inflammation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2607-2614

  Negrão Corrêa, Deborah ^a   Silveira, Micheline R ^a   Borges, Cynthia M ^a   Souza, Danielle G ^a   Teixeira, Mauro M ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; OVALBUMIN;

ALLERGIC AIRWAY INFLAMMATION; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; HELMINTHIASIS; IMMUNIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE MIGRATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRONGYLOIDES VENEZUELENSIS;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-10; LUNG; MALE; OVALBUMIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0242500344     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.5.2607-2614.2003     Document Type: Article

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