Regulation of mammalian defensin expression by Toll-like receptor-dependent and independent signalling pathways

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1387-1397

  Froy, Oren ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; BETA DEFENSIN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; DEFENSIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MAMMAL; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DEFENSINS; HUMANS; LUNG; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 25144453335     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00590.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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