Helminthic therapy: Using worms to treat immune-mediated disease

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 666, Issue , 2009, Pages 157-166

  Elliott, David E ^a   Weinstock, Joel V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENTERITIS; EXPOSURE; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIC THERAPY; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TRICHURIS MURIS; WORM; ANIMAL; HELMINTHIASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW;

MUS; VERMES;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS;

EID: 75649151181     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1601-3_12     Document Type: Article

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