Immune responses to an Eimeria acervulina infection in different broilers lines

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 26-34

  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

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

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANIC FARMING; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

ANIMALIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA;

EID: 34147188433     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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