Semaphorin 7A contributes to West Nile virus pathogenesis through TGF-β1/Smad6 signaling

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3150-3158

  Sultana, Hameeda ^a   Neelakanta, Girish ^a   Foellmer, Harald G ^a   Montgomery, Ruth R ^a   Anderson, John F ^b   Koski, Raymond A ^c   Medzhitov, Ruslan M ^a,d   Fikrig, Erol ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^c L2 Diagnostics LLC   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 7A; SMAD6 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CELL; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL; TISSUE LEVEL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEMAPHORINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD6 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84866167969     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201140     Document Type: Article

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