Protective immune response in BALB/c mice induced by DNA vaccine of the ROP8 gene of toxoplasma gondii

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 883-887

  Parthasarathy, Sonaimuthu ^a   Fong, Mun Yik ^a   Ramaswamy, Kalyanasundaram ^b   Lau, Yee Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; RHOPTRY PROTEIN 8; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTECTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPLEEN CELL; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84877135845     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0727     Document Type: Article

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