Filarial parasites develop faster and reproduce earlier in response to host immune effectors that determine filarial life expectancy

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Babayan, Simon A ^a   Read, Andrew F ^a,b,c   Lawrence, Rachel A ^d   Bain, Odile ^e   Allen, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e USM 307   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; EOSINOPHIL; FILARIOIDEA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; VERMES;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; EOSINOPHILS; FILARIOIDEA; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 78149379267     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000525     Document Type: Article

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