Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a healthy ocular surface involves surfactant protein D and is compromised by bacterial elastase in a murine null-infection model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2392-2398

  Mun, James J ^a,b   Tam, Connie ^a   Kowbel, David ^a   Hawgood, Samuel ^c   Barnett, Mitchell J ^d   Evans, David J ^a,d   Fleiszig, Suzanne M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TOURO UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EYE; EYE PROTECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORNEA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN D; TEARS;

EID: 66549087843     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00173-09     Document Type: Article

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