Co-incubation with IL-18 potentiates antigen-specific IFN-γ response in a whole-blood stimulation assay for measurement of cell-mediated immune responses in pigs experimentally infected with Lawsonia intracellularis

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 139, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 257-263

  Riber, Ulla ^a   Boesen, Henriette Toft ^a   Jakobsen, Jeanne T ^a   Nguyen, Lien T M ^a   Jungersen, Gregers ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; IFN ; IL 12; IL 18; L. intracellularis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 12; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 18;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOASSAY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-18; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

BRUCELLA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 78650880748     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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