Innate immunity: Toll-like receptors and some more - A brief history, basic organization and relevance for the human newborn

Neonatology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 145-157

  Fleer, André ^a,b   Krediet, Tannette G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; Mannose binding lectin; Nucleotide binding oligomerization domain; Premature, neonate; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CLASSICAL COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; DECTIN 1; FICOLIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PROTEIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN B; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTERITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; COLLECTINS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548823235     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102054     Document Type: Review

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