Rac2-Deficiency Leads to Exacerbated and Protracted Colitis in Response to Citrobacter rodentium Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Fattouh, Ramzi ^a   Guo, Cong Hui ^a   Lam, Grace Y ^a   Gareau, Melanie G ^a   Ngan, Bo Yee ^a   Glogauer, Michael ^b   Muise, Aleixo M ^a,c   Brumell, John H ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 17; RAC2 PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM INFECTION; COLITIS; COLON HYPERPLASIA; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAC2 GENE; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; COLITIS; COLON; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; MUS;

EID: 84876191369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061629     Document Type: Article

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