Highly diversified innate receptor systems and new forms of animal immunity

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-47

  Messier Solek, Cynthia ^a   Buckley, Katherine M ^a   Rast, Jonathan P ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genomics; Innate immunity; Nod like receptor; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 77949273867     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2009.11.007     Document Type: Review

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