Crystalloid inclusions in the cytoplasm of alveolar macrophages of the SWR/J mouse. A possible cause of susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 217-219

  Turner, Oliver C ^a   Sugawara, I ^b   Yamada, H ^b   Cummings, B ^a   Orme, I M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alveolar macrophages; Crystalloid; Cytoplasm; Inclusions; Susceptibility; SWR J mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL INCLUSION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; LETTER; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; INCLUSION BODIES; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0035225910     PISSN: 11229497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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