Protective immune response to experimental infection with Sarcocystis neurona in C57BL/6 mice

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 924-931

  Witonsky, Sharon G ^a   Gogal Jr , Robert M ^a,b   Duncan, Robert B ^a   Lindsay, David S ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARASITOLOGY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GERMINAL CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEROZOITE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SEROCONVERSION; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA;

EID: 0344512377     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-67R     Document Type: Conference Paper

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