Autophagy as an immune defense mechanism

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-382

  Deretic, Vojo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROTEIN IRGM1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOPHAGY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSOL; DEGENERATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYSOSOME; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOPHAGY; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE;

EID: 33745357459     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2006.05.019     Document Type: Review

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