Leprosy lipid provides the key to Schwann cell entry

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 52-54

  Young, Douglas B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DYSTROGLYCAN; GLYCOLIPID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LEPROSY VACCINE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MEROSIN; MYCOLIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HOST CELL; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SCHWANN CELLS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035252886     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01917-X     Document Type: Review

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