Role of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in mycobacterial infection in IL-18- gene-disrupted mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2585-2589

  Sugawara, Isamu ^a   Yamada, Hiroyuki ^a   Kaneko, Hirotaka ^a   Mizuno, Satoru ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^b   Akira, Shizuo ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE TARGETING; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG INFECTION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032924518     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2585-2589.1999     Document Type: Article

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