Type I alveolar epithelial cells mount innate immune responses during pneumococcal pneumonia

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2450-2459

  Yamamoto, Kazuko ^a,b   Ferrari, Joseph D ^a   Cao, Yuxia ^a   Ramirez, Maria I ^a   Jones, Matthew R ^a   Quinton, Lee J ^a   Mizgerd, Joseph P ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3ALPHA; PROTEIN STING; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MOUSE; NFKAPPAB RELA GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84865415300     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200634     Document Type: Article

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