Allicin enhances host pro-inflammatory immune responses and protects against acute murine malaria infection

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Feng, Yonghui ^a   Zhu, Xiaotong ^a   Wang, Qinghui ^a   Jiang, Yongjun ^a   Shang, Hong ^a   Cui, Liwang ^b   Cao, Yaming ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Macrophages; Plasmodium yoelii; Pro inflammatory mediators

Indexed keywords

ALLICIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII INFECTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; SULFINIC ACIDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864543367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-268     Document Type: Article

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