Role of Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 in pulmonary inflammation and injury induced by pneumolysin in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Dessing, Mark C ^a   Hirst, Robert A ^b   de Vos, Alex F ^a   van der Poll, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; PNEUMOLYSIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PLY PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSIN; TETRAZOLIUM; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLYL BLUE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 71049125775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007993     Document Type: Article

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