Antigen-specific CD4+ T cells produce sufficient IFN-γ to mediate robust protective immunity against genital Chlamydia muridarum infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3375-3382

  Li, Weidang ^a   Murthy, Ashlesh K ^a   Guentzel, M Neal ^a   Seshu, J ^a   Forsthuber, Thomas G ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^b   Arulanandam, Bernard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROTEINASE; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CPA FACTOR; CPG OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CPG-OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; EPITOPE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 49149088390     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.5.3375     Document Type: Article

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