Eimeria tenella: Expression profiling of toll-like receptors and associated cytokines in the cecum of infected day-old and three-week old SPF chickens

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 442-448

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Liu, Renqiang ^a   Ma, Liping ^a   Wang, Yingwei ^a   Pan, Baoliang ^a   Cai, Jianping ^b   Wang, Ming ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Cecum; Chicken; Cytokines; Eimeria tenella; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1LA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 21; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CECUM; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EFFECTOR CELL; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERFERON ALPHA GENE; INTERFERON BETA GENE; INTERFERON GAMMA GENE; INTERLEUKIN 12 GENE; INTERLEUKIN 12P40 GENE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA GENE; INTERLEUKIN 6 GENE; INTESTINAL INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1LA GENE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 21 GENE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4 GENE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5 GENE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7 GENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CECUM; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; CYTOKINES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYMPHOCYTES; POULTRY DISEASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EIMERIA; EIMERIA TENELLA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84862788124     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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