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SUBMITTER: Metenou S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3407820 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Metenou Simon S Dembele Benoit B Konate Siaka S Dolo Housseini H Coulibaly Siaka Y SY Coulibaly Yaya I YI Diallo Abdallah A AA Soumaoro Lamine L Coulibaly Michel E ME Sanogo Dramane D Doumbia Salif S SS Traoré Sekou F SF Mahanty Siddhartha S Klion Amy A Nutman Thomas B TB
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20100331 9
Despite the well-documented immune suppression associated with human helminth infections, studies characterizing the immune response at the single-cell level are scanty. We used multiparameter flow cytometry to characterize the type of effector (Th1, Th2, and Th17) and regulatory (natural T regulatory cells [nTregs] and adaptive Treg cells [aTreg/type 1 regulatory cells (Tr1s)]) CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in filaria-infected (Fil(+)) and -uninfected (Fil(-)) individuals at homeostasis (in the abs ...[more]