Immunological responses and cytokine gene expression analysis to Cooperia punctata infections in resistant and susceptible Nelore cattle

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Bricarello, P A ^a   Zaros, L G ^b   Coutinho, L L ^b   Rocha, R A ^a   Silva, M B ^a   Kooyman, F N J ^c   De Vries, E ^c   Yatsuda, A P ^b   Amarante, A F T ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattle; Cooperia; Cytokines; Gene expression; Immunoglobulins; Real time RT PCR; Resistance

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; INTERLEUKIN 12P35; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 2; MUCIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; NEMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; COOPERIA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA;

EID: 45549098408     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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