Recent advances in the characterization of genetic factors involved in human susceptibility to infection by schistosomiasis

Current Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 290-300

  Isnard, Amandine ^a,b   Chevillard, Christophe ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; STAT6 PROTEIN;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH2 CELL;

SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 49749107234     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920208785133262     Document Type: Review

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