Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Apoptosis of inflammatory cells induced by treatment with mebendazole or/and interleukin 12 in mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 226-232

  Chuang, Chih Cheng ^a   Chen, Chi Wu ^b   Fan, Chia Kwung ^c   Su, Kua Eyre ^d   Tsai, Yueh Ting ^d   Chen, Chih Li ^e   Du, Wen Yuan ^e  

^a Immunology and Rheumatology   (Taiwan)

^b VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Institute of Biomedical Science   (Taiwan)

^e FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Apoptosis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; MEBENDAZOLE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INOCULATION; LARVA; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINX; MONOTHERAPY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMPHALARIA; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EOSINOPHILIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERLEUKIN-12; MALE; MEBENDAZOLE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALIA;

EID: 37849187073     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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