Short report: Requirement of B cells for delayed type hypersensitivity-like pathology after secondary infection with Leishmania major in resistant C57BL/6 mice

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 481-483

  DeKrey, Gregory K ^a   Jones, Jeremy J ^d   Mbow, M Lamine ^b   Brodskyn, Claudia I ^c   Titus, Richard G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REINFECTION; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1342304319     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2003.69.481     Document Type: Article

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