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Lack of Galectin-3 Drives Response to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis toward a Th2-Biased Immunity

There is recent evidence that galectin-3 participates in immunity to infections, mostly by tuning cytokine production. We studied the balance of Th1/Th2 responses to P. brasiliensis experimental infection in the absence of galectin-3. The intermediate resistance to the fungal infection presented by...

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Autores principales: Ruas, Luciana Pereira, Bernardes, Emerson Soares, Fermino, Marise Lopes, de Oliveira, Leandro Licursi, Hsu, Daniel K., Liu, Fu-Tong, Chammas, Roger, Roque-Barreira, Maria-Cristina
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2641003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004519