Immune responses to RNA-virus infections of the CNS

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 493-502

  Griffin, Diane E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GANGLIOSIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; SIALIC ACID; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DNA VIRUS; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; NEURONS; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0038143296     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1105     Document Type: Review

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