T-Cell populations and cytokine expression are impaired in thymus and spleen of protein malnourished balb/c mice infected with leishmania infantum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Cuervo Escobar, Sergio ^a   Losada Barragán, Monica ^b   Umaña Pérez, Adriana ^a   Porrozzi, Renato ^b   Saboia Vahia, Leonardo ^b   Miranda, Luisa H M ^c   Morgado, Fernanda N ^b   Menezes, Rodrigo C ^c   Sánchez Gómez, Myriam ^a   Cuervo, Patricia ^b   Stager, Simona ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^d INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KWASHIORKOR; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LOW CALORY DIET; LYMPH FOLLICLE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PARASITE LOAD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RISK FACTOR; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; MALNUTRITION; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MUS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOKINES; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LIVER; MALNUTRITION; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITE LOAD; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84919784890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114584     Document Type: Article

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