The evolution and genetics of innate immunity

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 256-267

  Kimbrell, Deborah A ^a   Beutler, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TEHAO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFECTION; INSECT PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 0035321067     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35066006     Document Type: Review

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