Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) does not confer a resistance advantage on mice against low-dose aerosol infection with virulent type A Francisella tularensis

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 185-191

  Chen, Wangxue ^a   KuoLee, Rhonda ^a   Shen, Hua ^a   Bùsa, Maria ^a   Conlan, J Wayne ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Francisella tularensis; Mouse model; Pathogenesis; Toll like receptor 4; Virulent

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; LUNG; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TULAREMIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 5344281146     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2004.06.010     Document Type: Article

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