Toll-like receptor- and filarial antigen-mediated, mitogen-activated protein kinase- and NF-κB-dependent regulation of angiogenic growth factors in filarial lymphatic pathology

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2509-2518

  Babu, Subash ^a,b   Anuradha, R ^a   Pavan Kumar, N ^a   George, P Jovvian ^a   Kumaraswami, V ^c   Nutman, Thomas B ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENIC PROTEINS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NF-KAPPA B; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864797598     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.06179-11     Document Type: Article

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