Differential effects of interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor-α on Toxoplasma gondii proliferation in organotypic rat brain slice cultures

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 307-315

  Scheidegger, Alexandra ^a   Vonlaufen, Nathalie ^a   Naguleswaran, Arunasalam ^a   Gianinazzi, Christian ^a   Müller, Norbert ^a   Leib, Stephen L ^a   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPLANT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PARASITE PROLIFERATION; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TOXOPLASMA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VERO CELLS;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 19944387923     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-379R     Document Type: Article

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