Activation of human monocytic cells by Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum is facilitated by CD14 and correlates with surface exposure of spirochetal lipoproteins

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2049-2056

  Sellati, Timothy J ^a   Bouis, Deborah A ^a   Caimano, Melissa J ^a   Feulner, J Amelia ^a   Ayers, Christopher ^a   Lien, Egil ^b   Radolf, Justin D ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; COLECALCIFEROL; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYME DISEASE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD14; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHO CELLS; CHOLECALCIFEROL; CRICETINAE; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICRODIALYSIS; MONOCYTES; RABBITS; TRANSFECTION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033566734     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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