Murine gamma interferon fails to inhibit Toxoplasma gondii growth in murine fibroblasts
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 58 (3) , 833-834
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.58.3.833-834.1990
Abstract
Although treatment of human macrophages or fibroblasts with human gamma interferon results in the inhibition of intracellular Toxoplasma gondii, murine gamma interferon stimulated only murine macrophages, not murine fibroblasts, to inhibit T. gondii. This species difference may be important in understanding the control of acute and chronic toxoplasmosis.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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