Intra-articularly localized bacterial DNA containing CpG motifs induces arthritis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 702-705

  Deng, Guo Min ^a   Nilsson, Ing Marie ^a   Verdrengh, Margareta ^a   Collins, L Vincent ^a   Tarkowski, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; JOINT; MALE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; CPG ISLANDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ETOPOSIDE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERLEUKIN-12; KNEE JOINT; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033038486     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/9554     Document Type: Article

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