Aspergillus fumigatus evades immune recognition during germination through loss of toll-like receptor-4-mediated signal transduction

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 320-326

  Netea, Mihai G ^a   Warris, Adilia ^a   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Fenton, Matthew J ^b   Verver Janssen, Trees J G ^a   Jacobs, Liesbeth E H ^a   Andresen, Tonje ^b   Verweij, Paul E ^a   Kullberg, Bart Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GERMINATION; HOST RESISTANCE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYPHAE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-10; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 0041814629     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376456     Document Type: Article

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