Expression of Toll-like receptors and antimicrobial peptides during Eimeria praecox infection in chickens

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 714-718

  Sumners, Lindsay H ^a   Miska, Kate B ^b   Jenkins, Mark C ^b   Fetterer, Ray H ^b   Cox, Chasity M ^a   Kim, Sungwon ^a   Dalloul, Rami A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Coccidiosis; Eimeria praecox; Poultry; TLRs

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LIVER EXPRESSED ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE 2; LYMPHOTACTIN; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 15; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 21; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; EIMERIA PRAECOX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE INFECTION; JEJUNUM; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; JEJUNUM; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

AVES; EIMERIA; EIMERIA PRAECOX; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79951725767     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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