Immune response to parasitic infection in mice without seminal vesicles.
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.
García Tamayo
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Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F.
Terrazas Valdéz
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Casas Franco
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D000909:Antibodies, Helminth / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002030:Bulbourethral Glands / Q000502:physiology; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000276:immunology*; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C / Q000276:immunology; D012669:Seminal Vesicles / Q000502:physiology*; D013621:Taenia / Q000276:immunology*
D000909:Antibodies, Helminth