Fas has a role in cerebral malaria, but not in proliferation or exclusion of the murine parasite in mice

Immunogenetics

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 293-296

  Ohno, Tamio ^a   Kobayashi, Fumie ^b   Nishimura, Masahiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral malari; Fas; lpr mutant; Mouse; Parasitemia

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED MRL LPR; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MURINAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII;

EID: 20144364650     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-005-0791-5     Document Type: Article

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