Acute cerebral toxoplasmosis is induced by in vivo neutralization of TNF-alpha and correlates with the down-regulated expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and other markers of macrophage activation.

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Published in J Immunol on October 01, 1993

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R T Gazzinelli1, I Eltoum, T A Wynn, A Sher

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1: Immunology and Cell Biology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

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