Nitric oxide-mediated inhibition of the ability of Rickettsia prowazekki to infect mouse fibroblasts and mouse macrophagelike cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 558-566

  Turco, Jenifer ^a,b   Liu, Hua ^a   Gottlieb, Sheldon F ^a   Winkler, Herbert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGUANIDINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL KILLING; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 0031931443     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.2.558-566.1998     Document Type: Article

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