Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Pathogen Recognition

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 637-646

  Janssens, S ^a   Beyaert, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIGAND BINDING; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFECTION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; VIRUSES; YEASTS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0142031430     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.16.4.637-646.2003     Document Type: Review

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