Cytokine response to infection with Bacillus anthracis spores

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6382-6389

  Pickering, Alison K ^a,b   Osorio, Manuel ^a   Lee, Gloria M ^a   Grippe, Vanessa K ^a   Bray, Mechelle ^a   Merkel, Tod J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; INFECTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 7044227860     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.11.6382-6389.2004     Document Type: Article

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