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Immune response to parasitic infection in mice without seminal vesicles
F García Tamayo1, L I Terrazas Valdéz, J Casas Franco
1Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F.
Archives of Medical Research
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A protracted depression of anti-parasitic antibody and DTH responses were observed in Balb/c mice after surgical extirpation of seminal vesicles and ulterior infection with Taenia crassiceps cysts. Inclusion of male seminal accessory glands into the network of immunogonadal interactions was proposed.