Rhizopus oryzae hyphae are damaged by human natural killer (NK) cells, but suppress NK cell mediated immunity

Immunobiology

Volumn 218, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 939-944

  Schmidt, Stanislaw ^a   Tramsen, Lars ^a   Perkhofer, Susanne ^b,c   Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^b   Hanisch, Mitra ^a   Röger, Frauke ^a   Klingebiel, Thomas ^a   Koehl, Ulrike ^a   Lehrnbecher, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c University of Applied Sciences Tyrol   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conidia; Hyphae; Interferon; Natural killer cell; Perforin; Rhizopus oryzae

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PERFORIN; RANTES;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MUCORMYCOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE;

CELL DEGRANULATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CCL5; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPHAE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PERFORIN; RHIZOPUS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84877154841     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: 18783279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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