Sex-dependent susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection is mediated by differential interleukin-10 production

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5952-5960

  Pasche, Bastian ^a   Kalaydjiev, Svetoslav ^b   Franz, Tobias J ^b   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^c   Gailus Durner, Valérie ^c   Fuchs, Helmut ^c   De Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^c   Lengeling, Andreas ^a   Busch, Dirk H ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LETHALITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN-10; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 23944483539     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.9.5952-5960.2005     Document Type: Article

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