Divergent chemokine, cytokine and β-defensin responses to gastric candidiasis in immunocompetent C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-92

  Schofield, David A ^a   Westwater, Caroline ^b   Balish, Edward ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 3; BETA DEFENSIN 4; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE KC; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 4; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 12744274540     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45755-0     Document Type: Article

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