The lymphotoxin β receptor is critically involved in controlling infections with the intracellular pathogens Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Listeria monocytogenes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 170, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5210-5218

  Ehlers, Stefan ^a   Hölscher, Christoph ^a   Scheu, Stefanie ^b   Tertilt, Christine ^b   Hehlgans, Thomas ^c   Suwinski, Johanna ^a   Endres, Robert ^b   Pfeffer, Klaus ^b,d  

^a Centre for Research Borstel   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d Inst for Med Microbiol/Virology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; LYMPHOTOXIN; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INFECTION CONTROL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MICROORGANISM; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0037884699     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.10.5210     Document Type: Article

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