Cutting edge: Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-deficient mice are hyporesponsive to lipopolysaccharide evidence for TLR4 as the Lps gene product

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3749-3752

  Hoshino, Katsuaki ^a,b   Takeuchi, Osamu ^a   Kawai, Taro ^a   Sanjo, Hideki ^a   Ogawa, Tomohiko ^c   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Akira, Shizuo ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SALMONELLA MINNESOTA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 0033120081     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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