Helminth parasites - Masters of regulation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 201, Issue , 2004, Pages 89-116

  Maizels, Rick M ^a   Balic, Adam ^a   Gomez Escobar, Natalia ^a   Nair, Meera ^a   Taylor, Matt D ^a   Allen, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; CYTOKINE; GLYCAN; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BLOOD FLOW; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; DENDRITIC CELL; EOSINOPHIL; FILARIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOME; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; LARVAL STAGE; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAST CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEMATODIASIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPERINFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 4844229387     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00191.x     Document Type: Review

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