Toll-like receptor 2 knockout reduces lung inflammation during Pneumocystis pneumonia but has no effect on phagocytosis of Pneumocystis organisms by alveolar macrophages

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Chen ^a   Wang, Shao Hung ^a   Liao, Chung Ping ^a   Lasbury, Mark E ^a   Durant, Pamela J ^a   Tschang, Dennis ^a   Lee, Chao Hung ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 33751374971     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2006.00202.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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