Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis: Variations in its parasite growth permissiveness that encounter with local immune features in BALB/c substrains

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 362-368

  Meneses, Gabriela ^a   Berzunza, Miriam ^b   Becker, Ingeborg ^b   Bobes, Raúl J ^a   Rosas, Gabriela ^c   Sciutto, Edda ^a   Fragoso, Gladis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

BALB c substrains; Changes in parasite growth permissiveness; Immune features; Taenia crassiceps

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONEUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

EID: 70349959875     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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