Endogenous CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells have a limited role in the control of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 861-869

  Kotner, Joshua ^a   Tarleton, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITISM; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD4; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLES; PARASITEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33846838637     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01500-06     Document Type: Article

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