Role of tumor necrosis factor alpha in pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 257-260

  Takashima, Katsunori ^a,b   Tateda, Kazuhiro ^a   Matsumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Iizawa, Yuji ^b   Nakao, Masafumi ^b   Yamaguchi, Keizo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; FEMALE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031022234     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.1.257-260.1997     Document Type: Article

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