Temporal anomalies in immunological gene expression in a time series of wild mice: Signature of an epidemic?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Friberg, Ida M ^a,b   Lowe, Ann ^a   Ralli, Catriona ^a   Bradley, Janette E ^a   Jackson, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TLR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TLR4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TLR9 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; HOST RANGE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPARASITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE LOAD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79956339967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020070     Document Type: Article

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