Journal article
Establishment of T‐Helper‐2 immune response based gerbil model of enteric infection
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The reciprocal antagonism of T-helper-1 (Th-1) and Th-2 type immune responses suggests that helminth parasitic infection may ameliorate disease where a Th-1 type response dominates. The Mongolian gerbil has been useful in the investigation of the pathogenesis of gastric cancer, since long-term infection of gerbils with Helicobacter pylori induces adenocarcinoma. In this study the kinetics of worm expulsion and associated immune …
Authors
Sagar M; Padol I; Khan WI; Bonin RP; Blennerhassett PA; Hunt RH
Journal
Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 668–673
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
January 2004
DOI
10.1080/00365520410005315
ISSN
0036-5521