Infection of BALB/c mice with Angiostrongylus costaricensis decreases pulmonary inflammatory response to ovalbumin

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 151-155

  Pinto, L A ^a   Pitrez, P M C ^a   Fontoura, G R ^a   Machado, D C ^a   Jones, M H ^a   Graeff Teixeira, C ^a   Stein, R T ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; OVALBUMIN;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LARVA; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA;

EID: 4043145807     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9838.2004.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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