Coccidioides releases a soluble factor that suppresses nitric oxide production by murine primary macrophages

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 100-108

  Gonzalez, Angel ^a,b,c,d   Hung, Chiung Yu ^a   Cole, Garry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Coccidioides; Macrophage suppression; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRIC OXIDE; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

COCCIDIOIDES; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 78751703552     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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