B lymphocytes from patients with tuberculosis exhibit hampered antigen-specific responses with concomitant overexpression of Interleukin-8

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 481-482

  Vani, Janakiraman ^a,b,c   Sheila, Melukote S ^d   Rao, Mohan K N ^e   Krishnaswamy, Uma Maheshwari ^e   Kaveri, Srini V ^a,b,c   Bayry, Jagadeesh ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e M S RAMAIAH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 67650682180     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599843     Document Type: Letter

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