Immune responses in Eimeria acervulina infected one-day-old broilers compared to amount of Eimeria in the duodenum, measured by real-time PCR

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 223-233

  Swinkels, W J C ^a,b   Post, J ^a   Cornelissen, J B ^a   Engel, B ^a   Boersma, W J A ^a   Rebel, J M J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Eimeria acervulina; Immunology; Real time PCR; T cells

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHICK; COCCIDIOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

ACERVULINA; ANIMALIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA;

EID: 33646410713     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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