Toll-Like Receptor 4 Contributes to Efficient Control of Infection with the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania major

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1920-1928

  Kropf, Pascale ^a   Freudenberg, Marina A ^b   Modolell, Manuel ^b   Price, Helen P ^a   Herath, Shanti ^a   Antoniazi, Simone ^a   Galanos, Chris ^b   Smith, Deborah F ^a   Müller, Ingrid ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; ARGINASE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 1842536392     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.1920-1928.2004     Document Type: Article

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