Early induction of CCL7 downstream of TLR9 signaling promotes the development of robust immunity to cryptococcal infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3940-3948

  Qiu, Yafeng ^a,b   Zeltzer, Stuart ^a,b   Zhang, Yanmei ^a,b   Wang, Fuyuan ^b   Chen, Gwo Hsiao ^a,b   Dayrit, Jeremy ^a,b   Murdock, Benjamin J ^a,b   Bhan, Urvashi ^b   Toews, Galen B ^a,b   Osterholzer, John J ^a,b   Standiford, Theodore J ^b   Olszewski, Michal A ^a,b  

^a Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Health System 11R   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 3; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMOKINE CCL7; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MONOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEINS; PNEUMONIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

EID: 84860347125     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103053     Document Type: Article

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