ST2 deficiency does not impair type 2 immune responses during chronic filarial infection but leads to an increased microfilaremia due to an impaired splenic microfilarial clearance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ajendra, Jesuthas ^a   Specht, Sabine ^a   Neumann, Anna Lena ^a   Gondorf, Fabian ^a   Schmidt, David ^a   Gentil, Katrin ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang H ^b   Taylor, Mark J ^c   Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Hübner, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 25; INTERLEUKIN 33; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PROTEIN ST2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IL1RL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MICROFILARIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FILARIOIDEA; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MUTANT MOUSE STRAIN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SIGMODONTINAE; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; SIGMODONTINAE; SPLEEN;

EID: 84899768445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093072     Document Type: Article

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