Evolutionary perspectives on innate immunity from the study of Caenorhabditis elegans

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-10

  Kim, Dennis H ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTHROPOD; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENES, HELMINTH; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM;

EID: 11844262607     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2004.11.007     Document Type: Review

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