Senescent BALB/c mice are able to develop resistance to Leishmania major infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5106-5114

  Ehrchen, Jan ^a   Sindrilaru, Anca ^a,b   Grabbe, Stephan ^a   Schönlau, Frank ^a   Schlesiger, Christian ^a   Sorg, Clemens ^a   Scharffetter Kochanek, Karin ^b   Sunderkötter, Cord ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; ULCER HEALING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERLEUKIN-12; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRIC OXIDE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544328643     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.9.5106-5114.2004     Document Type: Article

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