Different types of pulmonary granuloma necrosis in immunocompetent vs. TNFRp55-gene-deficient mice aerogenically infected with highly virulent Mycobacterium avium

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-137

  Benini, Jochen ^a   Ehlers, Eva M ^b   Ehlers, Stefan ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caseation; Granuloma; Immunopathology; Mouse model; Mycobacteria; Mycobacterium avium; Necrosis; TNFRp55 gene deficient; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P55; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NECROSIS; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0032873065     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199909)189:1<127::AID-PATH398>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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