Host-derived extracellular nucleic acids enhance innate immune responses, induce coagulation, and prolong survival upon infection in insects

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2705-2712

  Altincicek, Boran ^a   Stötzel, Sabine ^a   Wygrecka, Malgorzata ^a   Preissner, Klaus T ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; PROTEOME; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; EX VIVO STUDY; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEAT; HEMOLYMPH; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; INSECT DISEASE; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOMICS; PURIFICATION; RNA BINDING; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS; DNA; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMOLYMPH; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LARVA; MOTHS; PHOTORHABDUS; PROTEOME; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 53149116721     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2705     Document Type: Article

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