Exogenous bovine surfactant suppresses tumor necrosis factor-α release by murine macrophages stimulated by genital mycoplasmas

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1122-1125

  Talati, Ajay J ^a,b   Crouse, Dennis T ^a   Keith English, B ^a   Newman, Cynthia ^a   Livingston, Lisa ^a   Meals, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LUNG SURFACTANT; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; SURFACTANT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; HYPEROXIA; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0031687453     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515695     Document Type: Article

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