Review Article

Helminths: Immunoregulation and Inflammatory Diseases—Which Side Are Trichinella spp. and Toxocara spp. on?

Table 3

Experimental models of Th2-mediated inflammatory diseases successfully treated by Trichinella infection or administration of Trichinella antigens.

Trichinella spp. or their productsExperimental disease modelReference

T. spiralis Exp. colitis[88]
T1D[89]
EAE[90]
EAE[91]
EAAI[92]
EAAI[22]

T. pseudospiralis EAE[93]
EAE[94]

T. spiralis crude muscle larvae antigenExp. colitis[78]
EAE[77]

Exp. colitis: experimental colitis; T1D: type 1 diabetes; EAE: experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; EAAI: experimental allergic airway inflammation.