Diversion of the immune response to neisseria gonorrhoeae from th17 to th1/th2 by treatment with anti-transforming growth factor β antibody generates immunological memory and protective immunity

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Yingru ^a   Russell, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA ANTIBODY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; SECONDARY INFECTION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MURINAE; MUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84855198521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00095-11     Document Type: Article

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