IL-18 enhances protective effect in mice immunized with a Schistosoma japonicum FABP DNA vaccine

Acta Tropica

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 284-288

  Wei, Feng ^a,d   Liu, Quan ^a   Zhai, Yujia ^a   Fu, Zhiqiang ^b   Liu, Wensen ^a   Shang, Limin ^a   Men, Jingtao ^a   Gao, Shengyan ^a   Lian, Hai ^a   Jin, Hongtao ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Lin, Jiaojiao ^b   Shi, Yaojun ^b   Xia, Zhiping ^a   Zhu, Xing Quan ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA vaccine; IL 18; Mice; Schistosoma japonicum; SjFABP

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 18; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTIVITY; PARASITE; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RODENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CELL PROLIFERATION; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-2; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PLASMIDS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES, DNA;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 67650607739     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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