title: Immunopathology in Taenia solium neurocysticercosis.
abstract: Neurocysticercosis is a clinically and radiologically heterogeneous disease, ranging from asymptomatic infection to a severe, potentially fatal clinical picture. The intensity and extension of the parasite-elicited inflammatory reaction is a key factor for such variability. The main features of the inflammatory process found in the brain and in the peripheral blood of neurocysticercosis patients will be discussed in this review, and the factors involved in its modulation will be herein presented.
authors.affiliation: Unidad Periférica de Neuroinflamación Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México City, México.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fleury
authors.affiliation: Unidad Periférica de Neuroinflamación Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México City, México.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cardenas
authors.affiliation: Unidad Periférica de Neuroinflamación Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México City, México.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Adalid-Peralta
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fragoso
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sciutto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D058345:Asymptomatic Infections; D001921:Brain / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D041201:Taenia solium / Q000276:immunology / Q000472:pathogenicity*
keywords: Neurocysticercosis; Taenia solium; immunity; inflammation; susceptibility