Absence of Both IL-7 and IL-15 Severely Impairs the Development of CD8+ T Cell Response against Toxoplasma gondii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Bhadra, Rajarshi ^a   Guan, Hongbing ^b   Khan, Imtiaz A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD44V ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; PROTEIN BCL 2; ANTIBODY; BROXURIDINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; SPLEEN; STAINING; TOXOPLASMA; UPREGULATION; VACCINATION;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL CYCLE; DOWN-REGULATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARASITES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; SPLEEN; STAINING AND LABELING; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UP-REGULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 77956269219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010842     Document Type: Article

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