Cytokine gene expression in response to SnSAG1 in horses with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 644-646

  Spencer, Jennifer A ^a   Deinnocentes, Patricia ^a   Moyana, Edith M ^a   Guarino, Anthony J ^a   Ellison, Siobhan E ^b   Bird, R Curtis ^a   Blagburn, Byron L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pathogenes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; SNSAG1 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EQUINE PROTOZOAL MYELOENCEPHALITIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORSE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 23944486691     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.5.644-646.2005     Document Type: Article

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