Transforming growth factor-beta expression by host cells is elicited locally by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus in hyporeactive patients independently from Wolbachia

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 555-564

  Korten, Simone ^a,b   Kaifi, Jussuf T ^c   Büttner, Dietrich W ^b   Hoerauf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Doxycycline; Filariasis; HIV infections; Immunohistochemistry; Immunosuppression; Ivermectin; Macrophages; Onchocerca volvulus; Plasma cells; T lymphocytes; TGF beta; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; IVERMECTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAST CELL; MICROFILARIA; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DOXYCYCLINE; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MAST CELLS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; ENDOBACTERIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERMES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 77953027454     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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