Interleukin-21 receptor signalling is important for innate immune protection against HSV-2 infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Kratholm, Sine K ^a   Iversen, Marie B ^a   Reinert, Line ^a   Jensen, Simon K ^a   Hokland, Marianne ^a   Andersen, Thomas ^a   Rankin, Andrew ^b   Young, Deborah ^b   Frische, Sebastian ^a   Paludan, Søren R ^a   Holm, Christian K ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; VAGINITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-21; VAGINA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84892997413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081790     Document Type: Article

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