Binding of excreted and/or secreted products of adult hookworms to human NK cells in Necator americanus-infected individuals from Brazil

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5810-5816

  Teixeira Carvalho, Andréa ^a,b   Fujiwara, Ricardo T ^a,c   Stemmy, Erik J ^c   Olive, Denise ^c   Damsker, Jesse M ^c   Loukas, Alex ^d   Corrêa Oliveira, Rodrigo ^a   Constant, Stephanie L ^c   Bethony, Jeffrey M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D; PROTEIN NKP46; PROTEIN NKP80; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BRAZIL; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; RECEPTORS, NATURAL KILLER CELL;

EID: 57349132446     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00419-08     Document Type: Article

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