A worm's best friend: Recruitment of neutrophils by wolbachia confounds eosinophil degranulation against the filarial nematode Onchocerca ochengi

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1716, 2011, Pages 2293-2302

  Hansen, Rowena D E ^a   Trees, Alexander J ^a   Bah, Germanus S ^b   Hetzel, Udo ^a   Martin, Coralie ^c   Bain, Odile ^c   Tanya, Vincent N ^b   Makepeace, Benjamin L ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Regional Centre of Wakwa   (Cameroon)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia; Filariasis; GRO; Innate immunity; Interleukin 8; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

MELARSOMINE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CUTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FILARIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MUTUALISM; NEMATODE; PROTEIN; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DEGRANULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EOSINOPHIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL DEGRANULATION; EOSINOPHILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NEUTROPHILS; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OXYTETRACYCLINE; TRIAZINES; WOLBACHIA;

BOS; BOVINAE; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79959730829     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2367     Document Type: Article

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