The complex role of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in cysticercosis: Immunological lessons from experimental and natural hosts

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 383-392

  Terrazas, Luis I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alternatively activated macrophages; Glucocorticoids; Granuloma; Proinflammatory cytokines; Taenia immunomodulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; METACESTODE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SWINE DISEASE; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MESOCESTOIDES; TAENIA;

EID: 44849094183     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156802608783790848     Document Type: Review

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