Cytokine gene expression by peripheral blood leukocytes in dogs experimentally infected with a new virulent strain of Ehrlichia canis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 482-486

  Unver, Ahmet ^a,b   Huang, Haibin ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dog; E. Canis; IL 1; IL 8

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA CANIS;

EID: 33845705115     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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