Dietary Vitamin D3 Deficiency Increases Resistance to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Infection in Mice

Dietary Vitamin D3 Deficiency Increases Resistance to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Infection in Mice

The leishmaniases are a group of diseases caused by Leishmania parasites, which have different clinical manifestations. Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis is endemic in South America and causes cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), which can evolve into a diffuse form, characterized by an anergic immune re...

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Main Authors: Izabella Pereira da Silva Bezerra, Gabriel Oliveira-Silva, Danielle Sophia Ferreira Santos Braga, Mirian França de Mello, Juliana Elena Silveira Pratti, Joyce Carvalho Pereira, Alessandra Marcia da Fonseca-Martins, Luan Firmino-Cruz, Diogo Maciel-Oliveira, Tadeu Diniz Ramos, André Macedo Vale, Daniel Claudio Oliveira Gomes, Bartira Rossi-Bergmann, Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
leishmaniasis
Leishmania amazonensis
vitamin D
Th1
immunonutrition
IL-10
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00088/full

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