Comparison of the inflammatory responses of human meningeal cells following challenge with Neisseria lactamica and with Neisseria meningitidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6467-6478

  Fowler, Mark I ^a,c   Ho Wang Yin, Kiave Y ^b   Humphries, Holly E ^a   Heckels, John E ^a   Christodoulides, Myron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHEMOKINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MODULIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LEPTOMENINX; MENINX; MOUSE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

CELLS, CULTURED; INFLAMMATION; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGES; MENINGIOMA; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 33750469360     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00644-06     Document Type: Article

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