Heat-killed Trypanosoma cruzi induces acute cardiac damage and polyantigenic autoimmunity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bonney, Kevin M ^a   Taylor, Joann M ^a   Daniels, Melvin D ^a   Epting, Conrad L ^a   Engman, David M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A ANTIBODY; INACTIVATED VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 4; LAMININ; MYOGLOBIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN I; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI VACCINE; CYTOKINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMULSION; HEART INJURY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; HEART; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

MUS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CYTOKINES; HEART; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MYOCARDITIS; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 79251606968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014571     Document Type: Article

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