The expression of early resistance to an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis by old mice is dependent on IFN type II (IFN-γ) but not IFN type I

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Turner, Joanne ^a   Orme, Ian M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; CD8; Interferon; Lung; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LUNG; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0345791458     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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