Mice Deficient in Interferon-Gamma or Interferon-Gamma Receptor 1 Have Distinct Inflammatory Responses to Acute Viral Encephalomyelitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Eun Young ^a,b   Schultz, Kimberly L W ^a   Griffin, Diane E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P35; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINDBIS VIRUS; SPINAL CORD; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FIBROBLASTS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84886262695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076412     Document Type: Article

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