Lethal tuberculosis in interleukin-6-deficient mutant mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4843-4849

  Ladel, Christoph H ^a   Blum, Carmen ^a   Dreher, Anja ^a   Reifenberg, Kurt ^a   Kopf, Manfred ^b   Kaufmann, Stefan H E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HELPER CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030734571     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4843-4849.1997     Document Type: Article

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