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Cutting Edge: CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides Trigger Protective and Curative Th1 Responses in Lethal Murine Leishmaniasis
1998-04-01
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Abstract Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides containing CpG dinucleotides (CpG-ODN) mimic the immunostimulatory qualities of bacterial DNA. We asked whether immunostimulation by CpG-ODN predisposes for a commitment toward a Th1 vs a Th2 response in Leishmania major infection, a model for a lethal Th2-driven disease, in BALB/c mice. CpG-ODN induced Th1 effector T cells in vitro and conveyed protective immunity to disea...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86f1e36c-7a87-5f24-a582-e6aacc2795d6
- DOI
- 10.4049/jimmunol.160.8.3627
