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A role for CD4+ and CD8+ cells and not for CD25+ cells in the control of Plasmodium berghei Anka blood stage parasites in rats.
Parasite (Paris, France) - 1 Mar 2010
Acroute Dit Vampouille A, Lafitte S, Dive D, Khalife J, Pierrot C
Abstract excerpt
In previous studies of the infection of rats by P. berghei Anka, we have shown that primary blood stage infection induced the expansion of CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells in adult resistant rats while the number of CD4+CD25+ cells was found to be higher in young susceptible rats. In this work, the respective contribution of each cell population was determined in young and adult rats treated with monoclonal...
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