Immune responses to oral infection with Echinococcus multilocularis protoscoleces in gerbils: Modified lymphocyte responses due to the parasite antigen

Parasitology Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-17

  Kato, Naoko ^a,b   Nonaka, Nariaki ^a   Oku, Yuzaburo ^a   Kamiya, Masao ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FEMALE; GERBIL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTESTINES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 16844365740     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1307-9     Document Type: Article

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