TLR4 mutations are associated with endotoxin hyporesponsiveness in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-191

  Arbour, Nancy C ^a   Lorenz, Eva ^a   Schutte, Brian C ^a   Zabner, Joseph ^a   Kline, Joel N ^a   Jones, Michael ^b   Frees, Kathy ^a   Watt, Janet L ^a   Schwartz, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 0034084438     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76048     Document Type: Article

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