The resistance of BALB/cJ mice to Yersinia pestis maps to the major histocompatibility complex of chromosome 17

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4092-4099

  Turner, Joshua K ^a   McAllister, Milton M ^a   Xu, John L ^a   Tapping, Richard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME 17; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; INBRED STRAIN; LIVER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE RESISTANCE LOCUS 1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TISSUE NECROSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIVER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLAGUE; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 51949108275     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00488-08     Document Type: Article

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