Host genetic background determines whether IL-18 deficiency results in increased susceptibility or resistance to murine Leishmania major infection

Immunology Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 35-37

  Wei, Xiao Qing ^a   Niedbala, Wanda ^a,b   Xu, Damo ^a   Luo, Zhao Xia ^a   Pollock, Kevin G J ^a   Brewer, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Infectious immunity parasite; Knockout; Th1 Th2

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENETIC TRAIT; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 3242665088     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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