The vertical transmission following the reactivation of a Neospora caninum chronic infection does not seem to be due to an alteration of the systemic immune response in pregnant CBA/Ca mice

Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-160

  Rettigner, C ^a   De Meerschman, F ^a   Focant, C ^a   Vanderplasschen, A ^a   Losson, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chronic infection; Immunity; Neospora caninum; Pregnancy; Reactivation; Transmission

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REINFECTION; TH2 CELL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CELL DIVISION; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1442290405     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004402     Document Type: Article

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