Effect of Amblyomma cajennense ticks on the immune response of BALB/c mice and horses

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 230-234

  Castagnolli, Karina Carrão ^a   Ferreira, Beatriz Rossetti ^b   Franzin, Alessandra Mara ^b   De Castro, Márcio Botelho ^c   Szabó, Matias Pablo Juan ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cajennense; BALB c mice; Horse; Immune response

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAZIL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; SALIVA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; EQUIDAE; IXODIDA; MUS;

EID: 57849159953     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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