Fatal granuloma necrosis without exacerbated mycobacterial growth in tumor necrosis factor receptor p55 gene-deficient mice intravenously infected with Mycobacterium avium

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3571-3579

  Ehlers, Stefan ^a   Benini, Jochen ^a   Kutsch, Stefanie ^a   Endres, Robert ^b   Rietschel, Ernst T ^a   Pfeffer, Klaus ^b  

^a Centre for Research Borstel   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P55; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INTERACTION; GRANULOMA; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033006566     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3571-3579.1999     Document Type: Article

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