Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression in the Early Phase of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense Infection in Vervet Monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3063-3065

  Maina, Naomi ^a   Ngotho, Joseph Maina ^a   Were, Tom ^a   Thuita, John Kibuthu ^a   Mwangangi, David Mumo ^a   Kagira, John Maina ^a   Ndung'u, Joseph Mathu ^a   Sternberg, Jeremy ^b  

^a Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TIME; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERFERON TYPE II; PARASITEMIA; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 2142755862     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.5.3063-3065.2004     Document Type: Article

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