Aged mice display an altered pulmonary host response to Francisella tularensis live vaccine strain (LVS) infections

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 91-96

  Mares, C A ^a   Ojeda, S S ^a   Li, Q ^b   Morris, E G ^b   Coalson, J J ^c   Teale, J M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bacterial infection; Host response; Lung; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE DERIVED CHEMOKINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TULAREMIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOKINES; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 74649085209     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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