Zinc deficiency and energy restriction modify immune responses in mice during both primary and challenge infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda)

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 363-373

  Shi, Hai Ning ^a,b   Koski, Kristine G ^a   Stevenson, Mary M ^c   Scott, Marilyn E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody; Cytokines; Energy; Heligmosomoides polygyrus; Immune response; Mice; Restriction; Th1 response; Th2 response; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MITOGENIC AGENT; PARASITE ANTIGEN; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 8544276625     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1997.d01-223.x     Document Type: Article

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