Resistance to Yersinia pestis infection decreases with age in B10.T(6R) mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4438-4446

  Lambert, Nathaniel D ^a   Langfitt, Deanna M ^b   Nilles, Matthew L ^a   Bradley, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b St Jude Children's Research Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL LOAD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LD 50; LIVER GRANULOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SECTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOMA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLAGUE; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 80855134721     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05267-11     Document Type: Article

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