Relative importance of T-cell subsets in monocytotropic ehrlichiosis: A novel effector mechanism involved in Ehrlichia-induced immunopathology in murine ehrlichiosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4608-4620

  Ismail, Nahed ^a,b   Crossley, Emily C ^a   Stevenson, Heather L ^a   Walker, David H ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; PERFORIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LETHALITY; LIVER INJURY; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH1 CELL; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 34548511844     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00198-07     Document Type: Article

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