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An essential role for IL-13 in maintaining a non-healing response following Leishmania mexicana infection
1 Oct 2002
Abstract excerpt
A comparison of the growth of Leishmania mexicana in IL-4(-/-), IL-4Ralpha(-/-) and wild-type BALB/c mice demonstrated a disease exacerbative role for IL-13 as well as IL-4. Thus, while both IL-4(-/-) and IL-4Ralpha(-/-) mice were more resistant than wild-type controls to infection with L. mexicana, IL-4Ralpha(-/-) mice, which are unresponsive to IL-13 as well as IL-4, were significantly more resistant to...
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