Key tissue targets responsible for anthrax-toxin-induced lethality

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7465, 2013, Pages 63-68

  Liu, Shihui ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Moayeri, Mahtab ^a   Liu, Jie ^b   Crown, Devorah ^a   Fattah, Rasem J ^a   Wein, Alexander N ^a   Yu, Zu Xi ^b   Finkel, Toren ^b   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CAPILLARY MORPHOGENESIS PROTEIN 2; EDEMA TOXIN; PROTEIN; TROPONIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHRAX; BACTERIUM; ETIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; INTESTINE FLUID; LETHALITY; LIVER EDEMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTES; INTESTINES; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; MUS;

EID: 84883742626     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12510     Document Type: Article

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