Role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin-10 in the pathogenesis of severe murine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis: Increased resistance of TNF receptor p55- and p75-deficient mice to fatal ehrlichial infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1846-1856

  Ismail, Nahed ^a,b   Stevenson, Heather L ^a   Walker, David H ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; PROTEIN P55; PROTEIN P75; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD LEVEL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DYING; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FATALITY; HOST RESISTANCE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SURVIVAL; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MURIDAE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33644784688     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.3.1846-1856.2006     Document Type: Article

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