Supernatants from human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected retinal glial cells increase transepithelial electrical resistance in a cell culture model: Evidence of HCMV immune escape in the eye?

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 205-208

  Scholz, Martin ^a   Margraf, Stefan ^a   Menon, Sanjay ^a   Schuller, Alina ^a   Doerr, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Cinatl, Jindrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human cytomegalovirus; Immune privilege; Junction molecules; Retinitis

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EPITHELIUM; EVALUATION; EYE; FIBROBLAST; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; SUPERNATANT; TIME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; CACO-2 CELLS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; NEUROGLIA; RETINA; RETINITIS;

EID: 11244331305     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-003-0187-9     Document Type: Article

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