Effect of chemotherapeutic treatment on cytokine (IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10) gene transcription in response to specific antigens in Brugia malayi-infected Mastomys coucha

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1163-1176

  Saunders, Mareike ^a   Taubert, Anja ^a   Dafa'alla, Tarig ^a   Zahner, Horst ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; ANTIGEN; BAY 444400; FLUBENDAZOLE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; METOBETHIAMIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; MASTOMYS COUCHA; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; STANDARD; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CYTOKINES; FILARIASIS; LYMPHOCYTES; MEBENDAZOLE; MURINAE; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; THIAZOLES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; MASTOMYS COUCHA;

EID: 51449102525     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1112-3     Document Type: Article

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