Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis in IL-6-deficient mice

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 165-172

  Cole, Nerida ^a,b   Bao, Shisan ^b   Stapleton, Fiona ^a   Thakur, Archana ^a   Husband, Alan J ^b   Beagley, Kenneth W ^c   Willcox, Mark D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene knockout; IL 6; Keratitis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CYTOKINE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATITIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROVOCATION TEST; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; COMPLEMENT C3; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; KERATITIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUTROPHILS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0037225237     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069006     Document Type: Article

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