Modulation of immunity in mice with latent toxoplasmosis-the experimental support for the immunosuppression hypothesis of Toxoplasma-induced changes in reproduction of mice and humans

Parasitology Research

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1421-1427

  Kaňková, Šárka ^a   Holáň, Vladimír ^b   Zajícová, Alena ^b   Kodym, Petr ^c   Flegr, Jaroslav ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MIXED CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; REPRODUCTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 78449278169     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2013-9     Document Type: Article

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