Prion pathogenesis in the absence of Toll-like receptor signalling

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-199

  Prinz, Marco ^a   Heikenwalder, Mathias ^a   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^b   Akira, Shizuo ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INCUBATION TIME; KINETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROVOCATION TEST; SCRAPIE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; PATHOGENESIS; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BRAIN; DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SCRAPIE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037297956     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor731     Document Type: Article

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