The role of B- and T-cell immunity in C57BL/6 WT, μMT and nude mice experimentally with Neospora caninum

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 178-187

  Ammann, Petra ^a   Waldvogel, Andreas ^a   Breyer, Isabel ^a   Esposito, Marco ^a   Müller, Norbert ^a   Gottstein, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; PROTOZOAL DNA; TOLTRAZURIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION CONTROL; INOCULATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BRAIN; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NUDE; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MUS MUSCULUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 3142750675     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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