Molecular and cellular mechanisms of Mycobacterium avium-induced thymic atrophy

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3600-3608

  Borges, Margarida ^a,b   Barreira Silva, Palmira ^c   Flórido, Manuela ^a,f   Jordan, Michael B ^d,e   Correia Neves, Margarida ^c   Appelberg, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CENTENARY INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATROPHY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84866527721     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201525     Document Type: Article

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