STAT4-dependent and -independent Th2 responses correlate with protective immunity against lung infection with Pneumocystis murina

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6287-6294

  Myers, Riley C ^a   Dunaway, Chad W ^a   Nelson, Michael P ^a   Trevor, Jennifer L ^a   Morris, Alison ^b   Steele, Chad ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG INFECTION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS MURINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84879089175     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300431     Document Type: Article

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