Strain-dependent host transcriptional responses to toxoplasma infection are largely conserved in mammalian and avian hosts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Ong, Yi Ching ^a   Boyle, Jon P ^b   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; RHOPTRY KINASE ROP 16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOMES; DATABASES, GENETIC; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80054073686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026369     Document Type: Article

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