Immune-mediated regulation of chronic intestinal nematode infection

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 201, Issue , 2004, Pages 75-88

  Hayes, Kelly S ^a   Bancroft, Allison J ^a   Grencis, Richard K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Stopford Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

CHRONICITY; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MODEL; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; WORM EXPULSION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NUDE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 4844225270     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00193.x     Document Type: Review

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