Infection of human endothelial cells with Chlamydia pneumoniae stimulates transendothelial migration of neutrophils and monocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1323-1330

  Molestina, Robert E ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Ramirez, Julio A ^a   Summersgill, James T ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; UMBILICAL VEIN;

EID: 0033020421     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1323-1330.1999     Document Type: Article

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