Interleukin-15 enhances innate and adaptive immune responses to blood-stage malaria infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3172-3177

  Ing, Rebecca ^a   Gros, Philippe ^a,b   Stevenson, Mary M ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE COURSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERLEUKIN-15; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 17644365171     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.5.3172-3177.2005     Document Type: Article

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