Transgenic mice expressing human transferrin as a model for meningococcal infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5609-5614

  Zarantonelli, Maria Leticia ^a   Szatanik, Marek ^a   Giorgini, Dario ^a   Hong, Eva ^a   Huerre, Michel ^b   Guillou, Florian ^c   Alonso, Jean Michel ^a   Taha, Muhamed Kheir ^a  

^a National Reference Centre for the Meningococci   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFLAMMATION; IRON TRANSPORT; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOUSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; IRON; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 36749078062     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00781-07     Document Type: Article

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