iNOS is essential to maintain a protective Th1/Th2 response and the production of cytokines/chemokines against Schistosoma japonicum infection in rats

• Jia Shen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (SYSU), Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Biological Vector Control, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Si-fei Yu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, P.R. China

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• Mei Peng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (SYSU), Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Biological Vector Control, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• De-Hua Lai,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4709-1507

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• Geoff Hide,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3608-0175

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• Zhong-Dao Wu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wuzhd@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-DW); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (SYSU), Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Biological Vector Control, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Zhao-Rong Lun

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wuzhd@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-DW); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9603-5379

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