The neuroimmunoendocrine network in the complex host-parasite relationship during murine cysticercosis

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 400-407

  Morales Montor, J ^a   Escobedo, G ^a   Vargas Villavicencio, J A ^a   Larralde, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Endocrine; Host parasite relationship; Immunity; Taenia crassiceps

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FADROZOLE; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; CELL PROTECTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COPULATION; CYSTICERCUS (CESTODE LARVA); DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TESTIS; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICE; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 44849119489     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156802608783790866     Document Type: Review

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