Preliminary Characterisation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Interleukin-10 Responses to Chlamydia pecorum Infection in the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mathew, Marina ^a   Beagley, Kenneth W ^a   Timms, Peter ^a   Polkinghorne, Adam ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERLEUKIN 10 GENE; KOALA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA GENE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; INTERLEUKIN-10; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; QUEENSLAND; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84875097291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059958     Document Type: Article

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