Nitric oxide synthesis is depressed in Bos indicus cattle infected with Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma vivax and does not mediate T-cell suppression.

Infection with African trypanosomes causes the diseases sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle in sub-Saharan Africa. Suppression of cellular immune responses is a feature of trypanosomiasis in bovine, human, and murine hosts. Some aspects of immunosuppression in the murine model are media...

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Main Authors: Taylor, K, Lutje, V, Mertens, B
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1996
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC174345/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8926077
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