IFN-γ and NO in mycobacterial disease: New jobs for old hands

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 221-226

  Cooper, Andrea M ^a   Adams, Linda B ^b   Dalton, Dyana K ^a   Appelberg, Rui ^c   Ehlers, Stefan ^d  

^a TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; NITRIC OXIDE;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; GRANULOMA; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEPROSY; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036568586     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02344-2     Document Type: Review

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