Strains of Toxoplasma gondii used for tachyzoite antigens to stimulate spleen cells of infected mice in vitro affect cytokine responses of the cells in the culture

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 332-335

  Rodgers, Laurel ^a   Wang, Xisheng ^a   Wen, Xiangshu ^a   Dunford, Bradley ^a   Miller, Renee ^a   Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPERNATANT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 26944468713     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1416-5     Document Type: Article

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