Antigen-responsive CD4+ T cells from C3H mice chronically infected with Leishmania amazonensis are impaired in the transition to an effector phenotype

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1547-1554

  Ramer, Amanda E ^a   Vanloubbeeck, Yannick F ^a,b   Jones, Douglas E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN-12; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 33644750212     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.3.1547-1554.2006     Document Type: Article

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