Innate Sensing of Chitin and Chitosan

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bueter, Chelsea L ^a   Specht, Charles A ^a   Levitz, Stuart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD161 ANTIGEN; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; DECTIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 4; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRUSTACEA; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DEACETYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENTAMOEBA; EOSINOPHILIA; FUNGAL CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION; HELMINTH; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT IMMUNITY; RECEPTORS, PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84875071074     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003080     Document Type: Article

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