Intrapulmonary G-CSF rescues neutrophil recruitment to the lung and neutrophil release to blood in gram-negative bacterial infection in MCP-1 -/- mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5849-5859

  Balamayooran, Gayathriy ^a   Batra, Sanjay ^a   Theivanthiran, Balamayooran ^a   Cai, Shanshan ^a   Pacher, Pal ^b   Jeyaseelan, Samithamby ^a,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BONE MARROW; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84871147196     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200585     Document Type: Article

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