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Parasite immunology: pathways for expelling intestinal helminths
1Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5PB, Scotland, UK. r.maizels@ed.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|October 21, 1998
Abstract:
Helminth parasites induce strong immune responses that are initiated by cytokines, in the first instance interleukin-4 and interleukin-13. Recent studies of knockout mice deficient in these mediators or their shared receptor have revealed discrete pathways required for expulsion of different gut parasites.