Perforin, a cytotoxic molecule which mediates cell necrosis, is not required for the early control of mycobacterial infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-132

  Laochumroonvorapong, Pairote ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Liu, Chau Ching ^a,c   Ye, Weiguo ^a   Moreira, Andre L ^a   Elkon, Keith B ^b   Freedman, Victoria H ^a   Kaplan, Gilla ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0031013561     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.1.127-132.1997     Document Type: Article

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