Basophils amplify type 2 immune responses, but do not serve a protective role, during chronic infection of mice with the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7426-7434

  Torrero, Marina N ^a   Hübner, Marc P ^a   Larson, David ^a   Karasuyama, Hajime ^b   Mitre, Edward ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BASOPHIL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GRANULOCYTE FUNCTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOPENIA; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; MAST CELL; MICROFILARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASOPHILS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TH2 CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650635339     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903864     Document Type: Article

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