Anaplasma phagocytophilum inhibits human neutrophil apoptosis via upregulation of bfl-1, maintenance of mitochondrial membrane potential and prevention of caspase 3 activation

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-38

  Ge, Yan ^a   Yoshiie, Kiyotaka ^a,b   Kuribayashi, Futoshi ^a   Lin, Mingqun ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; CASPASE 3; DACTINOMYCIN; ENZYME ANTIBODY; FLUORESCENT DYE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BFL 1; PROTEIN MCL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODY LABELING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE CULTURE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; APOPTOSIS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CARBOCYANINES; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEUTROPHILS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 12444278282     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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