Toll-like receptor 2-dependent NF-κB activation is involved in nontypeable haemophilus influenzae-induced monocyte chemotactic protein 1 up-regulation in the spiral ligament fibrocytes of the inner ear

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3361-3372

  Moon, Sung K ^a   Woo, Jeong Im ^a   Lee, Haa Yung ^a   Park, Raekil ^a,c   Shimada, Jun ^a,d   Pan, Huiqi ^a   Gellibolian, Robert ^a   Lim, David J ^a,b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Wonkwang University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I KAPPA B KINASE ALPHA; I KAPPA B KINASE BETA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; ENHANCER REGION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEARING LOSS; INNER EAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; VERTIGO;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR, INNER; FIBROBLASTS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NF-KAPPA B; OTITIS MEDIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPIRAL GANGLION; SPIRAL LAMINA; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34447272289     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01886-06     Document Type: Article

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