Phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete, potentiates innate immune activation and induces apoptosis in human monocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-70

  Cruz, Adriana R ^a,c   Moore, Meagan W ^a   La Vake, Carson J ^a   Eggers, Christian H ^a,d   Salazar, Juan C ^b   Radolf, Justin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b Farmington   (United States)

^c Centro Internacional de Entenamiento e Investigaciones   (Colombia)

^d QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; LYME DISEASE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPSONIZATION; OPSONOPHAGOCYTOSIS; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPIROCHETE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

APOPTOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFLAMMATION; LYME DISEASE; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 37749024618     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01039-07     Document Type: Article

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