Expression of interleukin-1β, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-6 in human peripheral blood leukocytes exposed to human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent or recombinant major surface protein P44

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3394-3402

  Kim, Hyung Yong ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; CELL STRAIN HL 60; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GENETICS; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; MICROBIOLOGY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION;

EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GRANULOCYTES; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKINS; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTES; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0033625437     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.6.3394-3402.2000     Document Type: Article

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