Systemic FasL and TRAIL neutralisation reduce leishmaniasis induced skin ulceration

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Tasew, Geremew ^a,b   Nylén, Susanne ^b   Lieke, Thorsten ^b,c   Lemu, Befekadu ^d   Meless, Hailu ^a   Ruffin, Nicolas ^b   Wolday, Dawit ^a   Asseffa, Abraham ^e   Yagita, Hideo ^f   Britton, Sven ^b   Akuffo, Hannah ^b   Chiodi, Francesca ^b   Eidsmo, Liv ^b  

^a ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d ST PAUL S HOSPITAL MILLENNIUM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Ethiopia)

^e ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^f JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; FASL PROTEIN, MOUSE; FASLG PROTEIN, HUMAN; TNFSF10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TNFSF10 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DERMIS; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPH NODE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN ULCER; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KERATINOCYTES; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUTROPHILS; SKIN ULCER; TNF-RELATED APOPTOSIS-INDUCING LIGAND;

EID: 78449236918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000844     Document Type: Article

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