Differential innate immune cell activation and proinflammatory response in Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3124-3130

  Choi, Kyoung Seong ^a,b   Webb, Tonya ^b   Oelke, Mathias ^b   Scorpio, Diana G ^b   Dumler, J Stephen ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIVER INJURY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 34249903322     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00098-07     Document Type: Article

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