Protein kinase C θ deficiency increases resistance of C57BL/6J mice to Plasmodium berghei infection-induced cerebral malaria

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4195-4205

  Ohayon, Ariel ^a   Golenser, Jacob ^b   Sinay, Rosa ^a   Tamir, Ami ^a   Altman, Amnon ^c   Pollack, Yaakov ^a   Isakov, Noah ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; LYMPHOTOXIN; PROTEIN KINASE C THETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; ISOENZYMES; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MALARIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPLEEN; TH1 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77957746730     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00465-10     Document Type: Article

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