NK cell-derived IFN-γ differentially regulates innate resistance and neutrophil response in T cell-deficient hosts infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 177, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 7086-7093

  Feng, Carl G ^a   Kaviratne, Mallika ^a   Rothfuchs, Antonio Gigliotti ^a   Cheever, Allen ^b   Hieny, Sara ^a   Young, Howard A ^c   Wynn, Thomas A ^a   Sher, Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 23; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN P35; PROTEIN P40; PROTEIN RAG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 33750816740     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.7086     Document Type: Article

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