Interferon activation and innate immunity

Reviews in Immunogenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 374-386

  Le Page, C ^a   Genin P ^a   Baines, M G ^b   Hiscott, J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antiviral state; Gene regulation; Interferon; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

2',5' OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; BETA INTERFERON; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; JANUS KINASE; M PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; STAT PROTEIN; TAU INTERFERON; VIRUS MESSENGER RNA;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; IMMUNE STATUS; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

2',5'-OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EIF-2 KINASE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON INDUCERS; INTERFERONS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COOPERATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0034521683     PISSN: 13981714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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