Influence of maternal infection on offspring immune response in murine larval toxocariasis

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 361-368

  Reiterova K ^a   Tomasovicova O ^a   Dubinsky P ^a  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Foeto maternal relationship; Immune response; Immunoglobulines; Mouse; Pregnancy; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LARVA; MATING; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-5; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; MURINAE; NEMATODA; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 0346250109     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2003.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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