Trypanosoma brucei brucei induces interferon-γ expression in rat dorsal root ganglia cells via a tyrosine kinase-dependent pathway

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 400-404

  Eltayeb, Ragaa ^a   Sharafeldin, Ahmed ^a   Jaster, Robert ^b   Bittorf, Thomas ^b   Mix, Eilhard ^b   Bakhiet, Moiz ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DORSAL ROOT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON TYPE II; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TYRPHOSTINS;

EID: 0033955510     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315189     Document Type: Article

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