Article
Kinetic analysis of antigen-specific immune responses in resistant and susceptible mice during infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Dec 1993
Hoft D F, Lynch R G, Kirchhoff L V
Abstract excerpt
The Tulahuén strain of Trypanosoma cruzi has been shown previously to cause higher parasitemias and greater mortality in BALB/c mice compared with C57BL6/J mice. The goal of our study was to determine whether different cytokine responses to parasite Ag during T. cruzi infection correlate with the susceptible and resistant phenotypes identified in these mice. At several time points after initial infection with...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Protozoan
- Chagas Disease
- Cytokines
- Female
- Interferon-gamma
- Interleukin-2
- Interleukin-4
- Interleukin-5
- Kinetics
- Lymphocyte Activation
