IL-21 Is Required for Optimal Antibody Production and T Cell Responses during Chronic Toxoplasma gondii Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Stumhofer, Jason S ^a   Silver, Jonathan S ^b   Hunter, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR; THYMUS DEPENDENT ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENCEPHALITIS; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMIC ENCEPHALITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKINS; MICE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-21; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84877103820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062889     Document Type: Article

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