Mice lacking CD21 and CD35 proteins mount effective immune responses against Borrelia burgdorferi infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2075-2078

  Jacobson, Amanda C ^a   Ma, Ying ^a   Zachary, James F ^b   Weis, Janis J ^a   Weis, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPIROCHETE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; JOINTS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3B; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3D;

EID: 34147129673     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01920-06     Document Type: Article

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