Lymphotoxin inhibits Chlamydia pneumoniae growth in HEp-2 cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3175-3179

  Matsushima, Hiroshi ^a   Shirai, Mutsunori ^a   Ouchi, Kazunobu ^b   Yamashita, Kenji ^c   Kakutani, Tetsu ^c   Furukawa, Susumu ^a   Nakazawa, Teruko ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Shimonoseki General Hospital   (Japan)

^c KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; LYMPHOTOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CELL INCLUSION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033022542     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.3175-3179.1999     Document Type: Article

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