Leishmania major H-line attenuated under pressure of gentamicin, induces a Th1 response which protects susceptible BALB/c mice against infection with virulent L. major

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1243-1250

  Daneshvar, Hamid ^a   Burchmore, Richard ^b   Hagan, Paul ^b   Phillips, R Stephen ^b  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CD4+ Th1 response; Leishmania major gentamicin attenuated line

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GENTAMICIN; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SKIN; SPLEEN CELL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VISCERA; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TH1 CELLS; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS;

EID: 70350568636     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009990679     Document Type: Article

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