Listeria monocytogenes Cytoplasmic Entry Induces Fetal Wastage by Disrupting Maternal Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cell-Sustained Fetal Tolerance

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rowe, Jared H ^a   Ertelt, James M ^a   Xin, Lijun ^a   Way, Sing Sing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WASTAGE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FETAL RESORPTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84866157125     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002873     Document Type: Article

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