Role of activated macrophages in Acanthamoeba keratitis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1114-1120

  Alizadeh, Hassan ^a   Neelam, Sudha ^a   Niederkorn, Jerry Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOCHALASIN D; GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOSOME; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INHIBITOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHINESE HAMSTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATITIS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERNATANT; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCANAVALIN A; CONJUNCTIVA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALIA; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 36749085366     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1083R.1     Document Type: Article

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