Impaired antiviral response and alpha/beta interferon induction in mice lacking beta interferon

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3404-3409

  Deonarain, Raj ^a   Alcamí, Antonio ^b   Alexiou, Maria ^a   Dallman, Margaret J ^c   Gewert, Dirk R ^a,d   Porter, Andrew C G ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QT Genetics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE INDUCTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERFERON TYPE I; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0034011437     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.7.3404-3409.2000     Document Type: Article

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