Deficiency of IL-12p40 subunit determines severe paracoccidioidomycosis in mice

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 637-646

  Livonesi, Márcia Cristina ^a   Souto, Janeusa Trindade ^b   Campanelli, Ana Paula ^a   Leite Maffei, Cláudia M ^a   Martinez, Roberto ^a   Rossi, Marcos A ^a   Santana da Silva, Joäo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Granulomas; IL 12; Immunosuppression; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SPLEEN CELL; TH1 CELL; WILD TYPE; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P40; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

FUNGI; MUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 55149113267     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780801982762     Document Type: Article

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