Role of NK Cells and Gamma Interferon in Transplacental Passage of Toxoplasma gondii in A Mouse Model of Primary Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1397-1401

  Abou Bacar, Ahmed ^a,b   Pfaff, Alexander W ^a   Georges, Sophie ^a   Letscher Bru, Valérie ^a   Filisetti, Denis ^a   Villard, Odile ^a   Antoni, Elisabeth ^a   Klein, Jean Paul ^a   Candolfi, Ermanno ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; RAG2 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 1342323759     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.3.1397-1401.2004     Document Type: Article

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