Evidence for Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) inducing a mitogenic and cytokine response in vitro and a cytokine response in vivo

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 96-100

  Wallace, F Morgan ^a   Mach, Annette S ^a   Keller, Andreas M ^a   Lindsay, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; CYTOKINE; ENTEROTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; SUPERANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FOOD POISONING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CYTOKINES; ENTEROTOXINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; MURINAE;

EID: 0032962925     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900410     Document Type: Article

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