Protective toxoplasma gondii-specific T-cell responses require T-cell-specific expression of protein kinase C-theta

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3454-3464

  Nishanth, Gopala ^a   Sakowicz Burkiewicz, Monika ^a   Händel, Ulrike ^a   Kliche, Stefanie ^a   Wang, Xiaoqian ^a   Naumann, Michael ^a   Deckert, Martina ^b   Schlüter, Dirk ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C THETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ISOENZYME; PRKCQ PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TH2 CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; BRAIN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; SECRETION; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPLEEN; TH2 CELLS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 77955285003     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01407-09     Document Type: Article

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