Impaired host defense to infection and Toll-like receptor 2-independent killing of Borrelia burgdorferi clinical isolates in TLR2-deficient C3H/HeJ mice

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-225

  Wang, Guiqing ^a   Ma, Ying ^b   Buyuk, Arzu ^c   McClain, Steve ^c   Weis, Janis J ^b   Schwartz, Ira ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal disease model; Borrelia burgdorferi; Innate immunity; Lyme disease; Toll like receptor 2

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR; GENOTYPE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT BIOPSY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 1342343005     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00960-1     Document Type: Article

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