Fine mapping of Leishmania major susceptibility locus lmr2 and evidence of a role for Fli1 in disease and wound healing

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2734-2744

  Sakthianandeswaren, Anuratha ^a,b   Curtis, Joan M ^a   Elso, Colleen ^a   Kumar, Beena ^a   Baldwin, Tracey M ^a   Lopaticki, Sash ^a   Kedzierski, Lukasz ^a   Smyth, Gordon K ^a   Foote, Simon J ^c   Handman, Emanuela ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FLI1; PROTEIN LMR2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPH NODE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77952726006     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00126-10     Document Type: Article

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