Breed differences in mucosal and systemic antibody response to nematode infection in sheep: An important role for IgE?

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-80

  Sayers, G ^a   Good, B ^b   Hanrahan, J P ^b   O'Donovan, J ^a   Mulcahy, G ^a   Sweeney, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Eosinophils; Haematology; Humoral; IgE; Mast cell; Pepsinogen; Suffolk lambs; Texel lambs

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PEPSINOGEN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; LAMB; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAST CELL; NEMATODIASIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOGLOBINS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM GLOBULINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 37249011970     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003630     Document Type: Article

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