Cytokine profiles of filarial granulomas in jirds infected with Brugia pahangi

Filaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rao, Ramakrishna U ^a   Klei, Thomas R ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; DNA 16S; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENOMIC DNA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA EXTRACTION; EX VIVO STUDY; FILARIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT;

EID: 33745100450     PISSN: 14752883     EISSN: 14752883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-5-3     Document Type: Article

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