Innate immunity: From lymphocyte mitogens to Toll-like receptors and back

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 599-602

  Coutinho, Antonio ^a   Poltorack, Alexander ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; ENDOTOXIN; FLAGELLIN; GLYCOLIPID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LECTIN RECEPTOR; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ALLELE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0242467623     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2003.09.020     Document Type: Note

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