Role of Caspase-1 in experimental pneumococcal meningitis: Evidence from pharmacologic Caspase inhibition and Caspase-1-deficient mice

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 319-329

  Koedel, Uwe ^a   Winkler, Frank ^b   Angele, Barbara ^c   Fontana, Adriano ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^a   Pfister, Hans Walter ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE DELETION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID CHLOROMETHYL KETONES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CASPASE 1; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPID PEROXIDES; LUNG; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RATS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0036193998     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10103     Document Type: Article

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