Clostridium difficile toxins A and B directly stimulate human mast cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3868-3876

  Meyer, Gesa K A ^a   Neetz, Anne ^a   Brandes, Gudrun ^a   Tsikas, Dimitrios ^a   Butterfield, Joseph H ^b   Just, Ingo ^a   Gerhard, Ralf ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; LATRUNCULIN B; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL GRANULE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYTOKINES; CYTOSKELETON; ENTEROTOXINS; GLUCOSE; HEXOSAMINIDASES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; MAST CELLS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROSTAGLANDINS D; PROSTAGLANDINS E; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34547626991     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00195-07     Document Type: Article

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