Regulatory role of toll-like receptor 2 during infection with Trypanosoma cruzi

Journal of Endotoxin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 425-430

  Ropert, Catherine ^a   Gazzinelli, Ricardo Tostes ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

GPI mucin; MyD88; TLR; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYTOKINES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 11; MUCINS; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 10244220986     PISSN: 09680519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/096805104225006507     Document Type: Article

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