Immune response of mice with alveolar echinococcosis to therapy with transfer factor, alone and in combination with albendazole

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1067-1076

  Dvorožňáková, Emília ^a   Porubcová, Jarmila ^a   Ševčíková, Zuzana ^b  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IMMUNE TRANSFER FACTOR; IMUNOR; INTERLEUKIN 5; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG HYDATID CYST; LUNG TRANSFER FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MUS;

EID: 69249215245     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1520-z     Document Type: Article

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