Influence of Toxocara canis infection during pregnancy on offspring resistance towards re-infection

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 625-633

  Reiterova K ^a   Tomasovicova O ^a   Dubinsky P ^a  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cytokines; Immune response; Mice; Toxocara canis; Transplacental transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOREGULATION; LARVA; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-5; LARVA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SPLEEN; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 33646014476     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009741     Document Type: Article

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