Differential regulation of Toll-like receptor mRNAs in experimental murine central nervous system infections

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-20

  Böttcher, Tobias ^a   Von Mering, Matthias ^a   Ebert, Sandra ^a   Meyding Lamadé, Uta ^b   Kuhnt, Ulrich ^c   Gerber, Joachim ^a   Nau, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Herpes simplex virus; mRNA; Organotypic hippocampal cultures; Real time PCR; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 0037683292     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00404-X     Document Type: Article

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