Profiling the cellular immune response to multiple Brugia pahangi infections in a susceptible host

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 822-829

  Chirgwin, S R ^a   Rao, U R ^a,b   Coleman, S U ^a   Nowling, J M ^a   Klei, T R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA;

IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARASITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FILARIASIS; GERBIL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MICROFILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT CODING; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FILARIASIS; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIC CORD; SPLEEN;

BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIA PAHANGI; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 24944489967     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-400R.1     Document Type: Article

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